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Coming climate crisis? : consider the past, beware the big fix
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- Creator
- Claire L. Parkinson
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012
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- xix, 411 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781442213265, 1442213264, 9780742556157, 0742556158, 9780742568303, 074256830X
- OCLC
- ocn783736958
- Originally published: 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- 4.6 billion years of global change -- Abrupt climate change -- A short history of human impacts -- The future : why some people are so concerned while others aren't -- Good intentions gone awry -- Geoengineering schemes -- The record on smaller-scale attempted modifications -- The possible fallibility of even a strong consensus -- The unknown future : model limitations -- Compounding social pressures -- What are the alternatives? -- Closing plea