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Behind the Curve : Science and the Politics of Global Warming /

"In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of resear...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Howe, Joshua P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: telling stories about CO₂
  • The cold war roots of global warming?
  • Scientists, environmentalists, and the global atmosphere?
  • Making the global environment?
  • Climate, the environment, and scientific activism?
  • The politics of dissent?
  • The IPCC and the primacy of science?
  • The gospel of the market?
  • Epilogue: climbing out from behind the curve?