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With speed and violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change
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Beacon Press
Publication Date
c2007
Language
English
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From the Book
Chronology of climate change
The cast
The chimney
Welcome to the anthropocene
The pioneers: the men who measured the planet's breath
Turning up the heat : a skeptic's guide to climate change
The year: how the wild weather of 1998 broke all records
The anthropocene: a new name for a new geological era
The watchtower: keeping climate vigil on an Arctic island
Fault lines in the ice
Ninety degrees north: why melting knows no bounds in the far north
On the slippery slope : Greenland is slumping into the ocean
The shelf: down south, shattering ice uncorks the Antarctic
The Mercer legacy: an Achilles heel at the bottom of the world
Rising tides: saying "toodle-oo" to Tuvalu
Riding the carbon cycle
In the jungle: would we notice if the Amazon went up in smoke?
Wildfires of Borneo: climate in the mire from burning swamp
Sink to source: why the carbon cycle is set for a U-turn
The doomsday device: a lethal secret stirs in the permafrost
The acid bath: what carbon dioxide does to the oceans
The winds of change: tsunamis, megafarts, and mountains of the deep
Reflecting on warming
What's Watts? : Planet Earth's energy imbalance
Clouds from both sides: uncovering flaws in the climate models
A billion fires: how brown haze could turn off the monsoon
Hydroxyl holiday: the day the planet's cleaner didn't show up for work
Ice Ages and Solar Pulses
Goldilocks and the three planets: why Earth is "just right" for life
The big freeze: how a wobble in our orbit triggered the ice ages
The ocean conveyor: the real day after tomorrow
An Arctic flowe: clues to a climate switchback
The pulse: how the sun makes climate change
Tropical heat
The fall: the end of Africa's golden age
Seesaw across the ocean: how the Sahara Desert greens the Amazon
Tropical high: why an ice man is rewriting climate history
The curse of Akkad: the strange revival of environmental determinism
A chunk of coral: probing the hidden life of El Niño
Feeding Asia: what happens if the monsoon falters?
At the Millennium
The heat wave: the year Europe felt the heat of global warming
The hockey stick: why now really is different
Hurricane season: raising the storm cones after Katrina
Ozone holes in the greenhouse why millions face radiation threat
Inevitable surprises
The dance: the poles or the tropics, who leads in the climatic dance?
New horizons: feedbacks from the stratosphere
Another planet
The trillion-ton challenge.
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9780807085769
9780807085776
9780807085776
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