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Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection

Greenhouse

The 200-Year Story of Global Warming

by (author) Gale Christianson

Publisher
Greystone Books Ltd
Initial publish date
Apr 2000
Category
Environmental Conservation & Protection
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550547849
    Publish Date
    Apr 2000
    List Price
    $19.95

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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.

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