When the planet rages : natural disasters, global warming, and the future of the earth / Charles Officer, Jake Page.
2009
QB631 .O34 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
When the planet rages : natural disasters, global warming, and the future of the earth / Charles Officer, Jake Page.
Author
Officer, Charles B.
Edition
Rev. and updated ed.
ISBN
9780195377019 (pbk.)
019537701X (pbk.)
019537701X (pbk.)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
QB631 .O34 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
550
Summary
"Charles Officer and Jake Page describe some of the great events of environmental history, from calamities such as the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (the greatest in recorded history) and the centuries-long cycles of ice ages, to recent man-made disasters such as Chernobyl, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Officer and Page provide discussions of meteorites and comets; of the demise of mammoths, mastodons, and dinosaurs; and of great floods that have swept the earth. But they also show that human activity can make trouble for nature, discussing the depletion of natural resources (we burn coal and oil at millions of times their natural rate of production), air pollution in Los Angeles and London (where the Killer Smog of 1952 caused the death of some four thousand people), and the pollution of major waterways, like the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
Rev. ed. of : Tales of the earth. New York : Oxford University Press, c1993.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Page, Jake.
Officer, Charles B. Tales of the earth.
Officer, Charles B. Tales of the earth.
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