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Losing Earth : a recent history Cover Image Book Book

Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.

Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- (author.).

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"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"-- Publisher marketing.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374191337
  • ISBN: 0374191336
  • Physical Description: x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : the reckoning -- Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979 -- Mirror worlds : spring 1979 -- Between clambake and chaos : July 1979 -- Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980 -- A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980 -- Tiger on the road : October 1980 -- A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981 -- Heroes and villains : March 1982 -- The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982 -- Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984 -- The world of action : 1985 -- The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986 -- Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988 -- Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988 -- Signal weather : June 1988 -- Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989 -- Fragmented world : fall 1988 -- The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989 -- Natural processes : May 1989 -- The White House effect : spring-fall 1989 -- Skunks at the garden party : November 1989 -- Afterword : glass-bottomed boats.

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Subject: Climatic changes > History.
Global warming > History.
Global environmental change > History.
Carbon dioxide > Environmental aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade > History.
Carbon dioxide > Environmental aspects.
Global environmental change.
Global warming.
Petroleum industry and trade.
SCIENCE / Physics.
Erwärmung.
Erwärmung Meteorologie.
Klimaänderung.
Klimaschutz.
Klimatologie.
Ökologische Bewegung.
Genre: History.

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