When the planet rages: natural disasters, global warming, and the future of the earth
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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| Ausgabe: | Rev. and updated ed. |
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| Beschreibung: | XVII, 227 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
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| adam_text | Titel: When the planet rages
Autor: Officer, Charles B
Jahr: 2009
Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition v
PREFACE TO THE FlRST EDITION ix
Part One Nature s Effect on Mankind
1 The Earth Is Still Hot
and Mobile 3
Tambora: The year without a summer; Laki: Acid rain in
Europe; Krakatoa: Colorful sunsets; Santorini: The myth
maker; Toba, Yellowstone, and Long Valley: Gigantic
eruptions
2 ... And from Time to Time Its Surface
Moves Around 31
Haicheng and Tangshan: Chinese earthquakes and earth-
quake predictions; San Francisco: Earthquakes along the
San Andreas fault and United States earthquake predic-
tions; New Madrid and Charleston: Largest earthquakes in
North America; Lisbon: All Saints Day in Portugal
3 There Have Been Frequent Flooding
and Sea-Level Change Events on Earth 60
Gilgamesh: The Flood; Scablands: Major flooding events;
New York and Miami: Relative sea-level changes
4 ... And Occasional Visitors from
Outer Space 85
Halley s comet: Our regulär visitor; Tunguska: Meteor
impacts
xv
CONTENTS
Part Two Changes in Climate and Life on Earth
5 The Earth s Climate Changes on
a Variety of Time Scales 99
Little Ice Age: Advance and retreat of the glaciers; Sahel:
Alternate drought and plenty in the sub-Sahara; Historical
temperature changes: Ups and downs, whys and wherefores;
Ice Ages: Milankovitch cycles or chaos theory; Geologie cli-
matic changes: Temperature, oxygen, and carbon dioxide
6 .. .And on Rare Occasions There
Are Changes in Its Community
of Living Things 125
Pandemics: Bubonic plague; Ice Ages: Demise of woolly
mammoth and cohorts; Cretaceous/Tertiary: The great
dinosaur extinetion controversy; Other geologic extinetions:
Similarities and differences among the geologic extinetion
events
Part Three Our Effect On Nature
7 Then Along Came Us and We Have
Effected Vast Environmental Changes
on a local and regional scale 151
London and Los Angeles: Smog; Lake Erie and Chesapeake
Bay: Marine pollution; Minamata: Toxic wastes; Cher-
nobyl: Nuclear wastes
8 .. .With the Potential for Equally
Great Changes on a Global Scale 178
Ozone layer depletion: Natural or anthropogenic?; Acid
rain: Acid lakes and forest devastation; Population growth:
The major unaddressed problem; Natural resources deple-
tion: Fossil fuels and minerals; Carbon dioxide emissions:
Global warming or not?; Global climate change
CONTENTS
The Most Fundamental Question
Facing Mankind Today Is Whether
Man Can Evolve to Live in Harmony
with nature 206
Environmental changes and time: Geologic and human per-
spectives; Environmental research: A catch-22; Local and
global anthropogenic changes: Where the problems are;
Epilogue: Where do we go from here?
References 215
Index 225
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