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CO2 rising : the world's greatest environmental challenge  Cover Image Book Book

CO2 rising : the world's greatest environmental challenge / Tyler Volk.

Volk, Tyler. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0262220830 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780262220835 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xvi, 223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Introducing the COâ molecule and its carbon atom -- 2. From a molecule in beer to the great cycle of carbon in the biosphere -- 3. The worldwide increase of COâ -- 4. Fossil-fuel carbon atoms join the biosphere -- 5. Carbon's fluxes and its rate of increase -- 6. Time capsules in ice -- 7. Wealth, energy, and COâ -- 8. How high will the COâ go? -- 9. Reining in the COâ increase -- 10. The ultimate fates of our carbon atoms.
Subject: Atmospheric carbon dioxide > Environmental aspects.
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Carbon dioxide.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library QC 879.8 .V65 2008 30538342 General Collection Available -


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