Umfang:
1 online resource (356 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393083231
Inhalt:
The book--companion to a PBS series--that proves humans are causing global warming and offers a path to the future.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Also By -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. THE BURNING QUESTION -- Chapter 1: Prepare to Come About -- Chapter 2: Burning to Learn -- Chapter 3: Peak Trees and Peak Whale Oil -- PART II. LEARNING WHILE WE BURN -- Chapter 4: Fossil Fuelish-Some Telling Facts -- Chapter 5: Abraham Lincoln or Your Brother-in-Law? -- Chapter 6: Red, White, and Blue-Green -- Chapter 7: Canting the Kayak -- Chapter 8: Why Accountants and Physicists Care about the Past -- Chapter 9: The Moving Finger Writes -- Chapter 10: And Having Writ, Moves On -- Chapter 11: The Great Ice That Covers the Land -- Chapter 12: Kindergarten Soccer and the Last Century of Climate -- Chapter 13: But My Brother-in-Law Said . . . -- Chapter 14: The Future -- Chapter 15: Valuing the Future -- PART III. THE ROAD TO TEN BILLION SMILING PEOPLE -- Chapter 16: Toilets and the Smart Grid -- Chapter 17: Sustainable Solutions on the Wind -- Chapter 18: Sun and Water -- Chapter 19: Down by the Sea, Where the Water Power Grows -- Chapter 20: Power from the Land -- Chapter 21: Put It Where the Sun Doesn't Shine -- Chapter 22: Conservation-Why Saving Energy Doesn't Mean Sitting Around in the Dark -- Chapter 23: Game-Changers? Geoengineering, Fusion, and . . . -- Chapter 24: Ten Billion and Smiling -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Figure Credits and Notes -- Index.
Anmerkung:
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Weitere Ausg.:
9780393081091
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780393081091
Sprache:
Englisch
