The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth (Record no. 294088)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780141026275
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 363.73874 FLA-W
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tim F Flannery
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2007
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xix, 341 pages ; 20 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The slow awakening -- 1: Gaia's tools -- Gaia -- The great aerial ocean -- The gaseous greenhouse -- The sages and the onion skin -- Time's gateways -- Born in the deep freeze -- Making the long summer -- Digging up the dead -- 2: One in ten thousand -- The unraveling world -- Peril at the poles -- 2050: the great stumpy reef? -- A warning from the golden toad -- Liquid gold: changes in rainfall -- An energetic onion skin -- Playing at Canute -- 3: 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 -- Civilisation: out with a whimper? -- 4: 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? -- 5: The solution -- Bright as sunlight, light as wind -- Nuclear Lazarus? -- Of hybrids, minicats, and contrails -- The last act of God? -- 2084: the carbon dictatorship? -- Time's up -- Over to you -- Climate change checklist -- Green power.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Tim Flannery takes the reader on a journey through history and around the globe as he describes the diversity of the world's ecosystems and reveals how the earth's climate has changed, causing devastating changes in the weather, from hurricanes to heatwaves.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Climatic changes. Climatic changes -- History. Weather.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015   363.73874 FLA-W DCB696 01/09/2015 19/07/2019 Book