Greenhouse : the 200-year story of global warming / Gale E. Christianson
- Bib ID:
- 3888427
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Christianson, Gale E
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- Table of Contents
- Description:
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- London : Constable & Co., c1999
- xiii, 305 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0094800308
- 9780094800304
- 0802713467
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Preface ix
- Part One
- The Time Travelers
- 1. The Guillotine and the Bell Jar 3
- 2. The Cryptic Moth 13
- 3. "Endless and as Nothing" 24
- Part Two
- The World Eaters
- 4. "Quest for the Black Diamond" 39
- 5. Cleopatra's Needles 54
- 6. Vulcan's Anvil 66
- 7. The Phantom of the Open Hearth 75
- 8. "The Dynamo and the Virgin" 92
- Part Three
- The Dwellers In The Crystal Palace
- 9. Native Son 105
- 10. "Never a Man" 116
- 11. Threshold 135
- 12. A Tap on the Shoulder 145
- 13. Pendulum 158
- 14. A Death in the Amazon 172
- 15. The Climatic Flywheel 192
- 16. Cassandra's Listeners 210
- 17. Signs and Portents 222
- 18. Scenarios 235
- 19. Kyoto 254
- Coda 269
- Bibliography 279
- Acknowledgments 293
- Index 295
- Preface ix
- Part One
- The Time Travelers
- 1. The Guillotine and the Bell Jar 3
- 2. The Cryptic Moth 13
- 3. "Endless and as Nothing" 24
- Part Two
- The World Eaters
- 4. "Quest for the Black Diamond" 39
- 5. Cleopatra's Needles 54
- 6. Vulcan's Anvil 66
- 7. The Phantom of the Open Hearth 75
- 8. "The Dynamo and the Virgin" 92
- Part Three
- The Dwellers In The Crystal Palace
- 9. Native Son 105
- 10. "Never a Man" 116
- 11. Threshold 135
- 12. A Tap on the Shoulder 145
- 13. Pendulum 158
- 14. A Death in the Amazon 172
- 15. The Climatic Flywheel 192
- 16. Cassandra's Listeners 210
- 17. Signs and Portents 222
- 18. Scenarios 235
- 19. Kyoto 254
- Coda 269
- Bibliography 279
- Acknowledgments 293
- Index 295.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Subject:
- Global warming -- History
- Also Titled:
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- 200-year story of global warming
- Two hundred-year story of global warming
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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