Losing Earth a recent history
"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 befor...
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2019
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| 100 | 1 | |a Rich, Nathaniel, |d 1980- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Losing Earth : |b a recent history / |c Nathaniel Rich. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2019 | |
| 300 | |a x, 206 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206). | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction : |t the reckoning -- |g Part I. |t Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. |t The whole banana : spring 1979 -- |t Mirror worlds : spring 1979 -- |t Between clambake and chaos : July 1979 -- |t Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980 -- |t A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980 -- |t Tiger on the road : October 1980 -- |t A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981 -- |t Heroes and villains : March 1982 -- |t The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982 -- |g Part II. |t Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. |t Caution not panic : 1983-1984 -- |t The world of action : 1985 -- |t The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986 -- |t Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988 -- |g Part III. |t You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. |t Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988 -- |t Signal weather : June 1988 -- |t Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989 -- |t Fragmented world : fall 1988 -- |t The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989 -- |t Natural processes : May 1989 -- |t The White House effect : spring-fall 1989 -- |t Skunks at the garden party : November 1989 -- |t Afterword : glass-bottomed boats. |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Publisher marketing. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Climatic changes |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global warming |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global environmental change |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Carbon dioxide |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Petroleum industry and trade |x History. | |
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