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Author:

Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-

Title:

Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it / Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Hill and Wang,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 253 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Climatic changes--History.
Global warming.
Greenhouse effect.
Climate.

Other Authors:

Kunzig, Robert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.

Contents:

Index. 16. Pyramid Lake -- 2. Finding science -- 3. Ice ages and the Serb theory -- 4. Proving Milankovic, doubting Milankovic -- 5. Carbon dioxide and the keeling curve -- 6. Where the carbon goes -- 7. A conveyor belt in the ocean -- 8. Conveyor jams, climate lurches -- 9. Why worry? -- 10. Ice melts, sea level rises -- 11. Megadroughts of the past -- 12. The drying of the future -- 13. Green is not enough -- 14. Scrubbing the air -- 15. Disposing of carbon -- 16. Fixing climate -- Selected references -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

ISBN:

080904501X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780809045013 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008004445

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)