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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Nature
published: Apr 2000
ISBN:9781550547849
publisher:
Greystone Books Ltd
Description
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.
In his brilliantly constructed book Greenhouse, Christianson blends the research of a scholar with a novelist's stroytelling skill, offering an invaluable perspective on what may be the most remarkable change in nature since the retreat of the glaciers some 10,000 years ago. Like a train coming at you from a distance, global warming is first a faint echoing whistle, then a puff of smoke, and ultimately, with an rush, an unavoidable reality.
