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<p><P><b>Dealing with the Root Cause of Global Warming Calls for New Remedies, Says Expert</b><P>The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award winning science writer, <i>Fixing</i> <i>Climate </i>takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace S. Broecker, a longtime researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before the concept entered popular consciousness. Hooked on climate studies since his student days, he has learned, largely through his own findings, that climate changes&#151;naturally, dramatically, and rarely benignly. He also knows from experience that when mankind pushes nature as we are currently doing by dumping some sixty to seventy million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day, climate will change even more dramatically and less benignly. As Broecker points out, if a well-meaning fairy godmother were to turn us all into energysaving paragons at the stroke of midnight tonight, the resulting reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide might lessen but could not turn aside the gr

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Author
Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig
Publisher
Hill and Wang ; Melia [distributor
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9780809045013
Category
science
Subjects
Fiction, History, Mathematics
Rating
3.81 / 5 (58 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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