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Greenhouse : the 200-year story of global warming / Gale E. Christianson.
Publication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2000.Description: xiii, 305 p. : ill. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0140292586 (pbk.) :
- Two hundred year story of global warming
- 200-year story of global warming
Contents:
Summary: For historian Gale Christianson, the emergence of global warming is one of the most compelling stories in the history of humankind. In his brilliantly constructed book, he blends the research of a scholar with a novelist's storytelling skill, finding the clues to global warming both deep in the past and right before our eyes.Summary: Weaving together an incredible cast of characters and events, from the demise of the Anasazi in the American Southwest to the 1997 Kyoto Conference on Climate Change, he offers a fascinating perspective on what may be the most remarkable change in nature since the retreat of the glaciers some ten thousand years ago.
The Time Travelers -- The Guillotine and the Bell Jar -- The Cryptic Moth -- "Endless and as Nothing" -- The World Eaters -- "Quest for the Black Diamond" -- Cleopatra's Needles -- Vulcan's Anvil -- The Phantom of the Open Hearth -- "The Dynamo and the Virgin" -- The Dwellers in the Crystal Palace -- Native Son -- "Never a Man" -- Threshold -- A Tap on the Shoulder -- Pendulum -- A Death in the Amazon -- The Climatic Flywheel -- Cassandra's Listeners -- Signs and Portents -- Scenarios -- Kyoto.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | QC 981.8 .G56 C48 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 621805 |
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| QC 981.8 .C5 M378 2018 Climate change : the science of global warming and our energy future / | QC 981.8 .C5 M3895 2010 Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet | QC 981.8.C53 C55 2008 Climate extremes and society / | QC 981.8 .G56 C48 2000 Greenhouse : the 200-year story of global warming / | QC 981.8 .G56 G67 2006 An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it / | QC 981.8 .G56 I52 2012 The greatest hoax : how the global warming conspiracy threatens your future / | QC 981.8 .G56 J44 2011 The global-warming deception : how a secret elite plans to bankrupt America and steal your freedom / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.
The Time Travelers -- The Guillotine and the Bell Jar -- The Cryptic Moth -- "Endless and as Nothing" -- The World Eaters -- "Quest for the Black Diamond" -- Cleopatra's Needles -- Vulcan's Anvil -- The Phantom of the Open Hearth -- "The Dynamo and the Virgin" -- The Dwellers in the Crystal Palace -- Native Son -- "Never a Man" -- Threshold -- A Tap on the Shoulder -- Pendulum -- A Death in the Amazon -- The Climatic Flywheel -- Cassandra's Listeners -- Signs and Portents -- Scenarios -- Kyoto.
For historian Gale Christianson, the emergence of global warming is one of the most compelling stories in the history of humankind. In his brilliantly constructed book, he blends the research of a scholar with a novelist's storytelling skill, finding the clues to global warming both deep in the past and right before our eyes.
Weaving together an incredible cast of characters and events, from the demise of the Anasazi in the American Southwest to the 1997 Kyoto Conference on Climate Change, he offers a fascinating perspective on what may be the most remarkable change in nature since the retreat of the glaciers some ten thousand years ago.
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