Research Catalog

Title

Global warming : can civilization survive? / Paul Brown.

Author

Brown, Paul.

Publication

London : Blandford, 1996.

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Description

235 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

By the environmental correspondent of the Guardian, this controversial book provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the problem of global warming, gives predictions on the possible consequences, and offers solutions.

Subject

• Global warming
• Greenhouse Effect

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction. Can civilization survive the crisis it has created? -- The history. When we started to worry -- Ozone: a blueprint to save the climate? -- The United States (and the UK) change their spots -- The Earth Summit and the signing of the Climate Change Convention -- The science. The greenhouse effect keeps us alive -- Uncertainty about the size of the danger -- Cloud cover: one of the great complications -- Sea level rise: perhaps the biggest shock yet to come -- The effects. Adapt, sink or move to higher ground -- Water wars and the battle for survival -- Forests, mountains and disappearing snow -- Malaria, plague and other unpleasantness -- Escape plans for planet Earth -- The politics. Berlin: the climate debate come alive again.
• Cont.): Hope salvaged from the wreckage -- Pressure groups pull both ways -- Insurance spawns new tactics -- Red herrings and contrarians -- The big questions still wait.

ISBN

0713726024

LCCN

^^^97126948^

OCLC

• 36995273
• 36340522

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library