CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge

✍ Scribed by Tyler Volk

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

CO2 Rising is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Volk's book interview ran here as cover feature on December 5, 2008.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1 Introducing the CO2 Molecule and Its Carbon Atom......Page 20
2 From a Molecule in Beer to the Great Cycle of Carbon in the Biosphere......Page 34
3 The Worldwide Increase of CO2......Page 46
4 Fossil-Fuel Carbon Atoms Join the Biosphere......Page 64
5 Carbon's Fluxes and Its Rate of Increase......Page 84
6 Time Capsules in Ice......Page 104
7 Wealth, Energy, and CO2......Page 124
8 How High Will the CO2 Go?......Page 152
9 Reininng In the CO2 Increase......Page 176
10 The Ultimate Fates of Our Carbon Atoms......Page 208
Notes......Page 226
Index......Page 238

✦ Subjects

Экологические дисциплины;Глобальная экология;Изменение климата и парниковый эффект;