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Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Walker & Co
Publication date
May 1, 1999
Pages
305
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780802713469
ISBN-10
0802713467
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.30 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$24.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
An intriguing study of the Greenhouse Effect and its impact on human history and the environment examines the causes and consequences of global warming and cooling, the rise in carbon dioxide atmospheric levels, and the various cycles that have occurred throughout Earth's history.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: Greenhouse is the illuminating history behind a scientific idea that fills's today's headlines. Christianson, author of Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae, blends the research of a scholar with a novelist's storytelling skill. As the full range of its elements come into focus, global warming becomes both a memorable human drama and an integral part of our planet's history. An essential book for anyone interested in the history of science and the very nature of scientific inquiry and speculation.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Walker & Co (May 1, 1999)
9780802713469 | details & prices | 305 pages | 5.75 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Traces the development of global warming from the retreat of the glaciers ten thousand years ago, through the demise of the Anasazi and the Vikings, to the politics behind the 1997 Kyoto Conference on the Environment
About: Traces the development of global warming from the retreat of the glaciers ten thousand years ago, through the demise of the Anasazi and the Vikings, to the politics behind the 1997 Kyoto Conference on the Environment
Paperback
Reissue edition from Penguin USA (June 1, 2000)
9780140292589 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.95
About: Analyzing the global climate change, the author pulls together disparate events from history and geology to demonstrate that the earth is getting warmer and explains why.
About: Analyzing the global climate change, the author pulls together disparate events from history and geology to demonstrate that the earth is getting warmer and explains why.
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