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100 1 $aPearce, Fred.
245 14 $aThe last generation :$bhow nature will take her revenge for climate change /$cFred Pearce.
260 $aLondon :$bEden Project Books,$c2006.
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505 0 $aPt. 1. Welcome to the anthropocene -- The pioneers -- the men who measured the planet's breath -- Turning up the heat -- a sceptic's guide to climate change -- The year -- how the wild weather of 1998 broke all records -- The anthropocene -- a new name for a new geological era -- The watchtower -- keeping climate vigil on an Arctic island -- Pt. 2. Fault lines in the ice -- Ninety degrees north -- why melting knows no bounds in the far north -- On the slippery slope -- Greenland is slumping into the ocean -- The shelf -- down south, shattering ice uncorks the Antarctic -- The mercer legacy -- an Achilles' heel at the bottom of the world -- Rising tides -- saying toodle-oo to Tuvalu -- Pt. 3. Riding the carbon cycle -- In the jungle -- would we notice if the Amazon went up in smoke? -- Wild fires of Borneo -- climate in the mire from burning swamp -- Sink to source -- why the carbon cycle is set for a U-turn -- The doomsday device -- a lethal secret stirs in the permafrost -- The acid bath -- what carbon dioxide does to the oceans -- The wind of change -- Tsunamis, megafarts and fountains of the deep -- Pt. 4. Reflecting on warming -- What's Watts? -- planet Earth's energy imbalance -- Clouds from both sides -- uncovering flaws in the climate models -- A billion fires -- how brown haze could turn off the monsoon -- Hydroxyl holiday -- the day the planet's cleaner didn't show for work -- Pt. 5. Ice ages and solar pulses -- Goldilocks and the three planets -- why the Earth is 'just right' for life -- The big Freeze -- how a wobble in our orbit triggered the ice ages -- The ocean conveyor -- the real day after tomorrow -- An Arctic flower -- clues to a climate switchback -- The pulse -- how the sun makes climate change -- Pt. 6. Tropical heat -- The fall -- the end of Africa's golden age -- See-saw across the ocean -- how Saharan desert greens the Amazon -- Tropical high -- why an ice man is rewriting climate history -- The curse of Akkad -- the strange revival of environmental determinism -- A chunk of coral -- probing the hidden life of El Nin̋o -- Feeding Asia -- what happens if the rains fail? -- Pt. 7. At the millennium -- The heatwave -- the year Europe felt the heat of global warming -- The hockey stick -- why now really is different -- Hurricane season -- raising the storm cones after Katrina -- Ozone holes in the greenhouse -- why millions face radiation threat -- Pt. 8. Inevitable surprises -- The dance -- poles or the tropics? Who leads in the climatic dance? Now horizons -- feedbacks from the stratosphere -- Conclusion: Another planet.
520 1 $a"In The Last Generation Fred Pearce lays bare the terrifying prognosis for our plant now being sketched out in learned scientific journals. We are at a tipping point. Climate change from now on will not be gradual, maintains Pearce - nature doesn't do gradual change. In the past, Europe's climate has switched from Arctic to tropical in three to five years. It can happen again. So forget what environmentalists have told you about nature being fragile, a helpless victim of human excess. The truth is the opposite. She is a wild and resourceful beast given to fits of rage. And now that we are provoking her beyond endurance, she is starting to seek her revenge."--BOOK JACKET.
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