CO? rising : the world's greatest environmental challenge
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Tyler Volk
- ناشر : Cambridge, MA : MIT Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780262220835
Description
Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Introducing the CO2 Molecule and Its Carbon Atom 1 2 From a Molecule in Beer to the Great Cycle of Carbon in the Biosphere 15 3 The Worldwide Increase of CO2 27 4 Fossil- Fuel Carbon Atoms Join the Biosphere 45 5 Carbon’s Fluxes and Its Rate of Increase 65 6 Time Capsules in Ice 85 7 Wealth, Energy, and CO2 105 8 How High Will the CO2 Go? 133 9 Reining In the CO2 Increase 157 10 The Ultimate Fates of Our Carbon Atoms 189 Notes 207 Index 219
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.
