02125nam a2200277 4500 0 20260521114504.0 0 0871139359 ATEN BAKER C#P YBM IXA DLC 363.73874 FLA/2005 22 Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- 30741 The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth / 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. 30742 Global warming. 30743 Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1501/2005052350-d.html 7 cbc 1 ocip 20 ddc BKS 228000 228000 0 0 ddc 0 0 ATEN ATEN 2024-04-30 Chandra Bahadur Sunuwar 0.00 0 363.73874 FLA/2005 ATEN018268 2019-12-19 00:00:00 2019-12-19 BK