| Publication |
New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
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| Description |
xx, 346pWhite Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Looks at the history of the changes in climate over the last million years. Helps us to understand the issues we are facing now and in the future with burning of fossil fuels and the increase in green house gases in our atmosphere.
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| Contents |
Foreword
Map
The slow awakening
Gaia's Tools:
Gaia
The Great Aerial ocean
The gaseous greenhouse
The sages and the onion skin
Time's gaterways
Born in the deep freeze
Making the long summer
Digging up the dead
One in ten thousand:
The unraveling world
Peril at the poles
The great stumpy reef
A warning from the golden toad
Liquid gold: Changes in rainfall
An energetic onion skin
Playing at Canute
The science of prediction:
Model worlds
The commitment and approaching extreme danger
Leveling the mountains
How can they keep on moving?
Boiling the Abyss
The pack of jokers
Civilization: Out with a whimper
People in greenhouses:
A close run thing
The road to Kyoto
Cost, cost, cost
People in greenhouses shouldn't tell lies
Engineering solutions?
Last steps on the stairway to heaven?
The solution:
Bright as sunlight, light as wind
Nucleau lazarus?
Of hybrids, minicats, and contrails
The last act of God?
2084: The carbon dictatorship?
Time's up
Over to you
Postscript
Afterword
Climate change checklist
Green power
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
References
Index
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| Standard Number |
0871139359 Pb.
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