Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it

Broecker, Wallace S. 1931- (Author). Kunzig, Robert. (Added Author).

Summary: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780809045013 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 080904501X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
p ; cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface : taming the beast -- 1. Pyramid Lake, 1955 -- 2. Finding science -- 3. Ice ages and the Serb theory -- 4. Proving Milankovic, doubting Milankovic -- 5. Carbon dioxide and the Keeling curve -- 6. Where the carbon goes -- 7. A conveyor belt in the ocean -- 8. Conveyor jams, climate lurches -- 9. Why worry? -- 10. Ice melts, sea level rises -- 11. Megadroughts of the past -- 12. The drying of the future -- 13. Green is not enough -- 14. Scrubbing the air -- 15. Disposing of carbon -- 16. Fixing climate.