Book description
With Broeker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig
looks back at Earth's volatile climate history so as to shed light on
the challenges ahead. Ice ages, planetary orbits, a giant 'conveyor
belt' in the ocean ... it's a riveting story full of maverick thinkers,
extraordinary discoveries and an urgent blueprint for action. Likening
climate to a slumbering beast, ready to react to the smallest of prods,
Broecker shows how assiduously we've been prodding it, by pumping 70
million tonnes of CO2 into the air each year. Fixing Climate explains
why we need not just to reduce emissions but to start removing our
carbon waste from our atmosphere. And in a thrilling last section of the
book, we learn how this could become reality, using 'artificial trees'
and underground storage. With Broeker as his guide, award-winning
science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth's volatile climate
history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead. Ice ages, planetary
orbits, a giant 'conveyor belt' in the ocean ... it's a riveting story
full of maverick thinkers, extraordinary discoveries and an urgent
blueprint for action. Likening climate to a slumbering beast, ready to
react to the smallest of prods, Broecker shows how assiduously we've
been prodding it, by pumping 70 million tonnes of CO2 into the air each
year. Fixing Climate explains why we need not just to reduce emissions
but to start removing our carbon waste from our atmosphere. And in a
thrilling last section of the book, we learn how this could become
reality, using 'artificial trees' and underground storage.
