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Under a green sky : global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future / Peter D. Ward. by Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949- New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007. Subjects Extinction (Biology)   Paleoclimatology.   Global warming -- Environmental aspects. ISBN:  9780061137914 006113791X Description:  xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st Smithsonian Books ed. Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents Note:  Introduction : going to Nevada -- ch. 1. Welcome to the revolution! -- ch. 2. The overlooked extinction -- ch. 3. The mother of all extinctions -- ch. 4. The misinterpreted extinction -- ch. 5. A new paradigm for mass extinctions -- ch. 6. The driver of extinction -- ch. 7. Bridging deep past with near past -- ch. 8. The oncoming extinction of winter -- ch. 9. Back to the Eocene -- Finale : the new Old World -- Specific references alluded to in the text -- Index. Summary Note:  More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion: that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. The story of the discovery makes for a globe-spanning adventure. Here, Ward explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened, and describes the freakish oceans--belching poisonous gas--and sky--slightly green and always hazy--that would have attended them. Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored, lest the world's life today--ourselves included--face the same dire fate.--From publisher description. Format:    Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Scottsdale CC Library General QE721.2.E97 W384 2007 Checked In Add Copy to MyList         Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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