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Title

Global warming : the Greenpeace report / edited by Jeremy Leggett.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Greenpeace UK.
• Leggett, Jeremy K.

Description

xi, 554 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

In this report commissioned by Greenpeace, a group of leading scientists and energy analysts from all over the world explain the scientific data available on the risks of global warming. The report assesses the implications of the data and outline the policies needed to overcome the problem.

Subject

• Climat
• Environnement
• Global warming > Government policy
• Global warming

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-544) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The nature of the greenhouse threat / Jeremy Leggett -- The science of climate-modelling and a perspective on the global-warming debate / Stephen H. Schneider -- Biogeochemical feedbacks in the earth system / David Schimel -- Halting global warming / Mick Kelly -- The effects of global warming / George M. Woodwell -- Lessons from climates of the past / Brian Huntley -- The implications for health / Andrew Haines -- Policy responses to global warming / Jose Goldemberg -- The costs of cutting -- or not cutting -- greenhouse-gas emissions / Stephen H. Schneider -- The role of energy efficiency / Amory Lovins -- Renewable energy: recent commercial performance in the USA as an index of future prospects / Carlo LaPorta -- Motor vehicles and global warming / Michael P. Walsh -- Nuclear power and global warming / Bill Keepin -- The challenge of choices: technology options for the Swedish electricity sector / Birgit Bodlund, Evan Mills, Tomas Karlsson, Thomas Johansson -- Tropical forests / Norman Myers -- Agricultural contributions to global warming / Anne Ehrlich -- Third world countries in the policy response to global climate change / Kilaparti Ramakrishna.
• Managing the global house: redefining economics in a greenhouse world / Susan George -- Global warming: Greenpeace view / Jeremy Leggett.

ISBN

• 0192177818 :
• 0192861190 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^90040115^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library