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• Title:Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Picador, 2020.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QC981.8.G56 R53 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Climatic changes--History.
  Global warming--History.
  Global environmental change--History.
  Carbon dioxide--Environmental aspects.
  Petroleum industry and trade--History.
  
• Edition:First Picador paperback edition.
  
• Description:206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"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"; Publisher marketing.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).
  
• ISBN:1250251257 paperback
  9781250251251 paperback
  
• Contents:Introduction : the reckoning
  Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979 ; Mirror worlds : spring 1979 ; Between clambake and chaos : July 1979 ; Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980 ; A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980 ; Tiger on the road : October 1980 ; A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981 ; Heroes and villains : March 1982 ; The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982
  Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984 ; The world of action : 1985 ; The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986 ; Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988
  Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988 ; Signal weather : June 1988 ; Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989 ; Fragmented world : fall 1988 ; The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989 ; Natural processes : May 1989 ; The White House effect : spring-fall 1989 ; Skunks at the garden party : November 1989
  Afterword: Glass-bottomed boats.