Earth : portrait of a planet / Marshak, Stephen, 1955- author.

considers the growing environmental impact of human activity on planet Earth"--

, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet Earth, what destinies

planet -- Greenhouses and other worlds -- Energy-balanced model for planet Earth -- Snowball Earth -- All

radiation -- Energy balance of the Earth -- Earth-sun motion -- Sun position -- Insolation -- Solar resource

the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary