CO2 Rising : The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge.
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TextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780262285612
- 363.738/74
- QC879.8.V65 2008
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing the CO2 Molecule and Its Carbon Atom -- 2 From a Molecule in Beer to the Great Cycle of Carbon in the Biosphere -- 3 The Worldwide Increase of CO2 -- 4 Fossil-Fuel Carbon Atoms Join the Biosphere -- 5 Carbon's Fluxes and Its Rate of Increase -- 6 Time Capsules in Ice -- 7 Wealth, Energy, and CO2 -- 8 How High Will the CO2 Go? -- 9 Reininng In the CO2 Increase -- 10 The Ultimate Fates of Our Carbon Atoms -- Notes -- Index.
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.
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