9780809045020-0809045028-Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It

Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It

ISBN-13: 9780809045020
ISBN-10: 0809045028
Edition: First Edition
Author: Robert Kunzig, Wallace S. Broecker
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780809045020
ISBN-10: 0809045028
Edition: First Edition
Author: Robert Kunzig, Wallace S. Broecker
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It (ISBN-13: 9780809045020 and ISBN-10: 0809045028), written by authors Robert Kunzig, Wallace S. Broecker, was published by Hill and Wang in 2009. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Climatology (Earth Sciences, Rivers, Nature & Ecology, Conservation) books. You can easily purchase or rent Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Climatology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.23.

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The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award-winning science writer, Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the problem of global warming―and offers a possible solution. Hailed by his colleagues as "one of the our greatest living geoscientists," Wallace S. Broecker, a longtime researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before it became a compelling public issue. Hooked on climate studies since his student days, he has learned, largely through his own findings, that climate does change―naturally, dramatically, and rarely benignly. He also knows from experience that when mankind pushes nature as we are currently doing by dumping some sixty to seventy million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day, climate will change even more dramatically and less benignly. As Broecker points out, if a well-meaning fairy godmother were to turn us all into energy-saving paragons at the stroke of midnight tonight, the resulting reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide might lessen but could not turn aside the great warming tide now headed our way. There is, nonetheless, a glimmer of hope in the development of new technologies that are directed not only at the reduction of carbon dioxide output but also at its harmless disposal.

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