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Greenhouse : the 200-year story of global warming / Gale E. Christianson.

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  • Cataloging Source:KH AE-AdNL
  • ISBN:0140292586 (pbk.)
  • ISBN:9780140292589 (pbk.)
  • ISBN:0802713467 (hc)
  • ISBN:9780802713469 (hc)
  • LC Call Number:QC981.8.G56 C48 2000
  • Dewey Decimal Classification Number:363.73874 Chr
  • Personal Author:Christianson, Gale E.
  • Portion of title:200-year story of global warming
  • Variant title:Two hundred-year story of global warming
  • Publication Info:New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
  • Physical Description:xiii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.
  • Contents:pt. 1. Time Travelers -- 1. Guillotine and the Bell Jar -- 2. Cryptic Moth -- 3. "Endless and as Nothing" -- pt. 2. World Eaters -- 4. "Quest for the Black Diamond" -- 5. Cleopatra's Needles -- 6. Vulcan's Anvil -- 7. Phantom of the Open Hearth -- 8. "The Dynamo and the Virgin" -- pt. 3. Dwellers in the Crystal Palace -- 9. Native Son -- 10. "Never a Man" -- 11. Threshold -- 12. Tap on the Shoulder -- 13. Pendulum -- 14. Death in the Amazon -- 15. Climatic Flywheel -- 16. Cassandra's Listeners -- 17. Signs and Portents -- 18. Scenarios -- 19. Kyoto.
  • Review:"There is no longer any doubt that the earth is warming: the question remains, why? For historian Gale Christianson, the emergence of global warming is one of the most compelling stories in the history of humankind, made all the richer for having been a slowly developing phenomenon." "Finding the clues to global warming both deep in the past and right before our eyes, Christianson introduces a memorable and unlikely cast of characters and events. Scientists, inventors, and other pioneers are woven into the narrativeamong them, Joseph Fourier, the French natural philosopher who, at the turn of the nineteenth century, first envisioned the Earth as a bell jar, Richard Arkwright, who launched the modern factory system, and chemist Charles Keeling, who accidentally discovered, in 1955, that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were rising. Their stories, in Christianson's crystal prose, urgently lead us to rethink what used to be called "man's place in nature.""--Jacket.
  • Subject term:Global warming--History.
  • General Note:kh2018
  • Held by:ALAIN WATHBA

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  • Location: Zayed Central Library - Al Ain
  • Material: Book
  • Call Number: QC981.8.G56 C48 2000
  • Copies: 1
  • Status: Available
  • Location: Al Wathba Library
  • Material: Book
  • Call Number: QC981.8.G56 C48 2000
  • Copies: 1
  • Status: Available