The weather makers how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth

Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof) 1956- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781554689590 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1554689597 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Originally published in 2005 by Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia"--T.p. verso.

Electronic book.

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 -- 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 -- Civilization: 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? -- The carbon dictatorship? -- Time's up -- Over to you.