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1st Routledge ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 341 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Previously published: London : Allen Lane, 1999. With new epilogue. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Early Warning -- The Price of Oil -- The Road to Rio -- Blown Cover -- Burned by Warming -- Excess of Loss -- A Mandate Delivered -- A Discernible Human Influence -- Cracks Appear in the Carbon Club -- A Crime Against Humanity -- The Day of the Atmosphere. |
| Summary |
"Excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels--a problem which as already resulted in increased natural catastrophes: storms, floods, droughts, and fire. Yet big oil companies have repeatedly hijacked efforts to slow global carbon emissions. The Carbon War is a major call-to-arms for the safety of our planet. Throughout the last decade, Jeremy Leggett, a distinguished scientist at Oxford University and former director for Green Peace, has worked doggedly to alert human kind to the threat of ecological catastrophe. He contends that the main enemies--Arab countries, the United States government, oil companies, and automobile manufacturers--have used junk science, an army of lobbyists, and outright lies to ensure that their profits stayed safer than the planet's future. With the grace of a novelist and the precision of a scientist, Leggett recounts his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and the fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues"--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Global warming -- Government policy.
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Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects.
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Environment.
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Environmental Pollution.
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Fossil Fuels.
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Greenhouse Effect.
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Renewable Energy.
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Changement climatique.
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Combustibles fossiles.
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Développement durable.
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Groupes d'intérêt.
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Biographies.
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Politique de l'environnement.
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Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00933147
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Global warming -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst00943512
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Kohlendioxidemission (DE-588)4164507-8
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Treibhauseffekt (DE-588)4226436-4
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Anthropogene Klimaänderung (DE-588)4290733-0
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Energiepolitik (DE-588)4014715-0
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Geschichte 1989-2001.
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| ISBN |
0415931029 (acid-free paper) |
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9780415931021 (acid-free paper) |
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0415931010 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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9780415931014 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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