The weather makers

Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof) 1956- (Author). De Carvalho, Drew. (Added Author).

Summary: "Our civilisation is facing its greatest threat - an unprecedented heating of our planet that looks set to destroy the first global civilisation humanity has ever developed. Ironically, the very substance that allowed humans to develop that civilisation - fossil fuels - is the cause of the looming catastrophe. In this groundbreaking and essential new book Tim Flannery argues passionately for the need to address - now - the implications of a global change that is damaging all life on earth and endangering our very survival. In addition to explaining the background story of global warming, it provides a clear outline of what each of us can do to avoid catastrophe."--Boffins

Record details

ISBN: 141939634X (cds)
ISBN: 9781419396342 (cds)
Physical Description: sound recording
sound disc
10 sound discs (12.25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Unabridged.
Formatted Contents Note:	The slow awakening -- 1: Gaia's tools -- Gaia -- The great aerial ocean -- The gaseous greenhouse -- The sages and the onion skin -- Time's gateways -- Born in the deep freeze -- Making the long summer -- Digging up the dead -- 2: One in ten thousand -- The unraveling world -- Peril at the poles -- The great stumpy reef? -- A warning from the golden toad -- Liquid gold: changes in rainfall -- An energetic onion skin -- Playing at Canute -- 3: The science of prediction -- Model worlds -- The commitment and approaching extreme danger -- Leveling the mountains -- How can they keep on moving? -- Boiling the abyss -- The pack of jokers -- Civilization: out with a whimper? -- 4: People in greenhouses -- A close-run thing -- The road to Kyoto -- Cost, cost, cost -- People in greenhouses shouldn't tell lies -- Engineering solutions? -- Last steps on the stairway to heaven? -- 5: The solution -- Bright as sunlight, light as wind -- Nuclear Lazarus? -- Of hybrids, minicats, and contrails -- The last act of God? -- The carbon dictatorship? -- Time's up -- Over to you.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Drew de Carvalho.