Laboratory earth : the planetary gamble we can't afford to lose /

World-renowned scientist and author Stephen H. Schneider depicts the next one hundred years as a potentially perilous period for climate and life unless we citizens of Earth first recognize and then work to control the unintended global scale experiment we are foisting on ourselves and all other lif...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneider, Steven H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Basic Books, ©1997.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Science masters.
Temas:
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes > History.
Global warming.
Climat > Changements.
Climat > Changements > Histoire.
Réchauffement de la Terre.
climate change.
global warming.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Climatic changes
Global warming
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: It's a Matter of Scale; 1 The Organic and Nonliving Earth: A Dynamic Cohesion; 2 The Coevolution of Climate and Life; 3 What Causes Climate Change?; 4 Modeling Human-Induced Global Climate Change; 5 Biodiversity and the Battle of the Birds; 6 Integrated Assessments of Policy Options; Notes; Index.

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