Atmosphere Of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1443442380
ISBN 13
9781443442381
Category
340-369 Law, Administration & Associations
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Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Pages
272
Subject
Climatic changes ,Climate change mitigation ,Global warming ,Renewable energy sources ,Environmental policy--International cooperation ,Environmental protection--Citizen participation ,Greenhouse gas mitigation ,Environmental degradation
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Abstract
Explains the fast-approaching climate crisis while drawing on the latest scientific findings to outline promising clean technologies involving soft geo-engineering- -
Description
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tim F Flannery
ISBN: 9780802124067 0802124062
OCLC Number: 904813732
Description: xix, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Part One: Climate Science. The Weather Makers: Right or Wrong? ; The Waters of a Warming World ; Ominously Acidic Oceans ; How Are the Animals Doing? ; The Great Climatic Event Horizon --
Part Two: The Knife Blade We Perch On. The Great Disconnect ; Coal : Decline of a Giant ; What Future, Oil? ; Gas : Last Hurrah or Bridge to the Future? ; Divestment and the Carbon Bubble ; Where's Nuclear? ; Sunlight and Wind : Winning the Race ; At Last, EVs --
Part Three: Fight for the future. Adapting? ; Geoengineering : A Way Out? ; The Gigatonne Challenge ; Silicate Rocks, Cement and Smart Chemistry ; The New Carbon Capture and Storage ; The 2030 Challenge ; Deadline 2050 ; The Growing Power of the Individual.
Responsibility: Tim Flannery.
All Authors / Contributors: Tim F Flannery
ISBN: 9780802124067 0802124062
OCLC Number: 904813732
Description: xix, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Part One: Climate Science. The Weather Makers: Right or Wrong? ; The Waters of a Warming World ; Ominously Acidic Oceans ; How Are the Animals Doing? ; The Great Climatic Event Horizon --
Part Two: The Knife Blade We Perch On. The Great Disconnect ; Coal : Decline of a Giant ; What Future, Oil? ; Gas : Last Hurrah or Bridge to the Future? ; Divestment and the Carbon Bubble ; Where's Nuclear? ; Sunlight and Wind : Winning the Race ; At Last, EVs --
Part Three: Fight for the future. Adapting? ; Geoengineering : A Way Out? ; The Gigatonne Challenge ; Silicate Rocks, Cement and Smart Chemistry ; The New Carbon Capture and Storage ; The 2030 Challenge ; Deadline 2050 ; The Growing Power of the Individual.
Responsibility: Tim Flannery.
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