The weather makers : our changing climate and what it means for life on earth /: our changing climate and what it means for life on earth. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Flannery.
• Other Names: Flannery, Tim F (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 341 pages)
• Subjects: 551.6; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; Climatic changes; Climatic changes -- History; Weather; Weather -- History; Climatic changes; Weather; Climate change; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141926377; 0141926376
• Related ISBNs: 9780141026275; 0141026278
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-337) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.