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Life in the hothouse : how a living planet survives climate change /
Why does the planet's warming produce stronger hurricanes, rising seas, and larger floods? The Earth is just doing what comes naturally. Just as humans produce sweat to cool off on a hot day, the planet produces hurricanes, floods, wetlands, and forests to cool itself off. This book incorporate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A feverish response : hurricanes come with high temperatures
- A living system : gaia and climate control
- Greenhouse-gas attack : one way to warm a planet
- Circulation patterns : a pulse of floods, to the beat of rising waves
- An herbal remedy : plants work to restore balance
- An internal cleanse : the additive power of soils and wetlands
- Beneath the surface : weathering the warming in deep time
- Systematic healing : more ways trees and wetlands boost planetary health
- Conclusion : what would gaia do?