Fixing climate : the story of climate science - and how to stop global warming

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Title:

Author:

Kunzig, Robert.

ISBN:

9781846688706

Personal Author:

Kunzig, Robert.

Publication Information:

London : Profile, 2009.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

General Note:

Originally published: 2008.

Abstract:

We've heard a lot 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 solution emerging on the horizon: artificial trees designed to remove CO2 directly from the air.

Subject Term:

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes -- Prevention.

Global warming.

Global warming -- Prevention.

Added Author:

Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-

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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.