Fixing Climate: The story of climate science - and how to stop global warming - Brossura

Broecker, Wallace S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1846688701 ISBN 13: 9781846688706

Casa editrice: Profile Books Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

With Broeker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth's volatile climate history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead. Ice ages, planetary orbits, a giant 'conveyor belt' in the ocean ... it's a riveting story full of maverick thinkers, extraordinary discoveries and an urgent blueprint for action. Likening climate to a slumbering beast, ready to react to the smallest of prods, Broecker shows how assiduously we've been prodding it, by pumping 70 million tonnes of CO2 into the air each year. Fixing Climate explains why we need not just to reduce emissions but to start removing our carbon waste from our atmosphere. And in a thrilling last section of the book, we learn how this could become reality, using 'artificial trees' and underground storage.

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Descrizione del libro

We've heard lots about climate change - but what can we do about it? Wallace Broecker, the eminent scientist who coined the term global warming way back in 1975, believes in a techno-solution: 'artificial trees' to scrub CO2 directly from the air.

L'autore

Wallace S. Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. He was awarded the 2006 Crafoord Prize (the 'Nobel for GeoScience').

Robert Kunzig is a contributing editor on Discover magazine and author of Mapping the Deep, winner of the Royal Society Aventis Science Book of the Year.

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• Editore: Profile Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846688701
• ISBN 13: 9781846688706
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288