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Reuben James Runquist is finally facing facts; at eighty, he is stuck with a retirement condo in an environment that is decidedly MAI (“not” in Thai) Shangri-La! The climate has “flipped”, global sea levels have risen seven meters, plagues have killed hundreds of millions, and worldwide transportation and commercial infrastructures have collapsed. Reuben is reduced to a subsistence existence in the high-tech but questionably secure “Panic Room” of his barricaded con… More >>
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How could ants save the world? Why do we need more baobab trees? Should we eat less rice or make clouds whiter, and what difference does it make? Isomäki analyzes the whole range of existing geoengineering proposals to stop global warming, their dangers and benefits. Includes also a wide range of less known ways to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth’s position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth’s orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did not drive climate change. No runaway greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred during times of excessively… More >>
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