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Under a green sky : global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they mean for our future / Peter D. Ward. - 1st Smithsonian Books ed. - New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007. - xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction : going to Nevada -- Welcome to the revolution! -- overlooked extinction -- mother of all extinctions -- misinterpreted extinction -- new paradigm for mass extinctions -- driver of extinction -- Bridging deep past with near past -- oncoming extinction of winter -- Back to the Eocene -- Finale : the new Old World -- Specific references alluded to in the text -- Index. ch. 1. ch. 2. The ch. 3. The ch. 4. The ch. 5. A ch. 6. The ch. 7. ch. 8. The ch. 9.
More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion: that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. The story of the discovery makes for a globe-spanning adventure. Here, Ward explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened, and describes the freakish oceans--belching poisonous gas--and sky--slightly green and always hazy--that would have attended them. Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored, lest the world's life today--ourselves included--face the same dire fate.--From publisher description.
9780061137914 006113791X
2006052250
Extinction (Biology)
Paleoclimatology.
Global warming--Environmental aspects.
577.27/6
Under a green sky : global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they mean for our future / Peter D. Ward. - 1st Smithsonian Books ed. - New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007. - xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction : going to Nevada -- Welcome to the revolution! -- overlooked extinction -- mother of all extinctions -- misinterpreted extinction -- new paradigm for mass extinctions -- driver of extinction -- Bridging deep past with near past -- oncoming extinction of winter -- Back to the Eocene -- Finale : the new Old World -- Specific references alluded to in the text -- Index. ch. 1. ch. 2. The ch. 3. The ch. 4. The ch. 5. A ch. 6. The ch. 7. ch. 8. The ch. 9.
More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion: that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. The story of the discovery makes for a globe-spanning adventure. Here, Ward explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened, and describes the freakish oceans--belching poisonous gas--and sky--slightly green and always hazy--that would have attended them. Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored, lest the world's life today--ourselves included--face the same dire fate.--From publisher description.
9780061137914 006113791X
2006052250
Extinction (Biology)
Paleoclimatology.
Global warming--Environmental aspects.
577.27/6