Beskrivelse
INDHOLD: The warming now. Temperature trends. An American perspective: Why all the fuss? .- The Greenhouse and GAiA. The natural greenhouse. – The primeval greenhouse. Earth, Venus and Mars. – The ice age / carbon dioxide connection. – Iace age rhythms Strengthening the link. – The carbon dioxide connection. – The Antarctic cornucopia. – Afte the ice. – Warm and wet / cold and dry. – A little ice age. – Cycle os of ice and fire. – An astrogeological aside. – A successful forecast? – Carbon cycles and reservoirs. – Oceanic cycles. – An isotopic cornucopia. -Tree rings and ice cores. -Out of the wood. – Making the most of the models. – The greenhouse champion. – Methane and the main contenders. – Nitrous oxide and ozone. – All things considered.- Unpleasant surprises ahead? – Children of the sea. – Problems with the oceanic sink. – The flood next time. – The upward trend. – Scope for change. – Icemlet. – Catastrophe not on the agenda. – Counting the cost. – Hothouse Earth. – The smoking gun. – How fast? – Agricultural impacts. – Stings in the tail. – What to do. – Burn less. – Change the mix. – What no to do. – The return og Johnny Appleseed? – Good husbandry. – Adapt or die? – Appendix. – Bibliography. – Index.
