Laboratory earth : the planetary gamble we can't afford to lose /
Schneider traces our climatic history not only from the beginning and up to the twentieth century, but deep into the twenty-first as well. He depicts the next one hundred years as a potentially perilous period for climate and life - unless we citizens of Earth first recognize and then work to contro...
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New York :
BasicBooks,
©1997.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Science masters series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: It's a Matter of Scale
- 1. The Organic and Nonliving Earth: A Dynamic Cohesion
- 2. The Coevolution of Climate and Life
- 3. What Causes Climate Change?
- 4. Modeling Human-Induced Global Climate Change
- 5. Biodiversity and the Battle of the Birds
- 6. Integrated Assessments of Policy Options.