02468cam a22003494a 4500 2443 2443 14041260 OSt 20230621113140.0 050718r20052005nyuabf b 001 0 eng 2005052350 0871139359 9780871139351 (OCoLC)ocm61123222 DLC DLC BAKER C#P YBM IXA DLC pcc QC981.8.C5 F438 2005 363.738/74 22 Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth / Tim Flannery. 1st American ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2005. xv, 357 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm. "Originally published in 2005 by Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-343) and index. 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. Climatic changes. Global warming. Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1501/2005052350-d.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 LPL LPL GEN 2019-12-11 DONATION 0 QC981. F438 2006 2017/11,035 2019-12-11 00:00:00 11,035 2019-12-11 BK