THE WEATHER MAKERS HOW MAN IS CHANGING THE CLIMATE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR LIFE ON EARTH TIM FLANNERY ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS 2005 PART III Chapter 13: Liquid Gold: Changes in Rainfall · From the poles to the equator, our earth spans a range of temperatures from around 104°F below zero to 104°F above. Air …
THE WEATHER MAKERS HOW MAN IS CHANGING THE CLIMATE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR LIFE ON EARTH TIM FLANNERY ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS 2005 PART II Chapter 6: Born in the Deep Freeze · The ice age in which we evolved covers the last 2.4 million years. 2,000 fertile adults were all that stood between us …
THE WEATHER MAKERS HOW MAN IS CHANGING THE CLIMATE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR LIFE ON EARTH TIM FLANNERY ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS 2005 PART I Foreword by Paul Anderson, Chairman & CEO of Duke Energy Corp. · The real message of The Weather Makers is not that global warming is real, although he does an …
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HELL AND HIGH WATER GLOBAL WARMING – THE SOLUTION AND THE POLITICS – AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO JOSEPH J. ROMM WILLIAM MORROW 2007 PART II Chapter 3: 2025-2050: Planetary Purgatory (continued) The four (potential) sources of the apocalypse For the past few decades, nearly 60% of the carbon dioxide that we have …
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HELL AND HIGH WATER GLOBAL WARMING – THE SOLUTION AND THE POLITICS – AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO JOSEPH J. ROMM WILLIAM MORROW 2007 PART I Introduction The widespread confusion about our climate crisis is no accident. For more than a decade, those who deny that climate change is an urgent problem have …
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THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART III Chapter 12: The Ultimate Pollutant (Continued) Alaskan camels We might have to rely on the 125,000-year-old indications to get a feel for what the CO2-fostered climate of 2030 to 2040 may be like on a global scale. A climatic warming of 4 or 5ºF …
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THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART II Chapter 4: The Return of the Dust Bowl (Continued) Wheat, rust, and prickly pears Wheat is the second most important US grain and comprises about 17% of our total grain production. There are seven different monthly mean precipitation and temperature variables that significantly influence …
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART I Introduction Before the end of the next four decades, easily within the lifespans of many of us, the climate of the earth may be warmer than at any time in the past thousand years. By the middle of the next century, within the lifetimes …
THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS 1999 PART III Chapter 3: Ice Ages and Greenhouse Gases (Continued) Carbon dating Between 1850 and 1986, the burning of fossil fuels released nearly 200 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere and deforestation to convert land for agriculture added another 120 gigatonnes. …
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THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS 1999 PART II Chapter 1: The Nature and History of Climate (continued) Climate and misery The change to a less hospitable climate appears to have come abruptly. The late medieval period was marked by colder weather which was most severe during the …
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