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Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change / Elizabeth Kolbert.

By: Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : [S.l.] : Bloomsbury Pub. ; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Description: 210 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781596911253; 1596911255.Subject(s): Global warming | Global temperature changes | Global environmental change | Greenhouse effect | ClimateDDC classification: 363.738/74
Contents:
Shishmaref, Alaska -- A warmer sky -- Under the glacier -- The butterfly and the toad -- The curse of Akkad -- Floating houses -- Business as usual -- The day after Kyoto -- Burlington, Vermont -- Man in the anthropocene.
Summary: Presents an examination of the build-up of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere and the effects on climate change and global warming.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index.

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Presents an examination of the build-up of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere and the effects on climate change and global warming.

Shishmaref, Alaska -- A warmer sky -- Under the glacier -- The butterfly and the toad -- The curse of Akkad -- Floating houses -- Business as usual -- The day after Kyoto -- Burlington, Vermont -- Man in the anthropocene.

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