Uninhabitable : a case for caution
Goldsmith, Craig Scott.
Uninhabitable : a case for caution - Las Vegas : Goldstar Publications, 2007. - 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).
Introduction -- Not a pretty picture -- Converging calamities -- The Permian parallel -- The pleistocene surprise -- What the scientists are saying -- Red flags -- New evidence -- Does anybody care? -- Life at 110 degrees -- A bleak prognosis -- The perils of overpopulation -- Truth and consequences -- Are we making any progress? -- The impact on the global economy -- Triple witch -- Creating a sustainable planet -- Some encouraging trends -- Money: the root of all evil? Maybe no -- What you can do now -- One mind, one response -- Getting ready -- No place like home -- A legacy of misfortune? -- The global future -- Afterward.
Outlines the undesireable effects of global warming and offers a timeline predicting the appearance of an ominous threat that has waited for millennia for temperatures to increase enough to set it free.
9780979580406 0979580404
Global warming.
Global temperature changes.
Global warming--Political aspects.
QC981.8.G56 / G64 2007
363.738
Uninhabitable : a case for caution - Las Vegas : Goldstar Publications, 2007. - 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).
Introduction -- Not a pretty picture -- Converging calamities -- The Permian parallel -- The pleistocene surprise -- What the scientists are saying -- Red flags -- New evidence -- Does anybody care? -- Life at 110 degrees -- A bleak prognosis -- The perils of overpopulation -- Truth and consequences -- Are we making any progress? -- The impact on the global economy -- Triple witch -- Creating a sustainable planet -- Some encouraging trends -- Money: the root of all evil? Maybe no -- What you can do now -- One mind, one response -- Getting ready -- No place like home -- A legacy of misfortune? -- The global future -- Afterward.
Outlines the undesireable effects of global warming and offers a timeline predicting the appearance of an ominous threat that has waited for millennia for temperatures to increase enough to set it free.
9780979580406 0979580404
Global warming.
Global temperature changes.
Global warming--Political aspects.
QC981.8.G56 / G64 2007
363.738