Losing Earth: A Recent History

Synopsis

By 1979, We Knew Nearly Everything We Understand Today About Climate Change--including How To Stop It. Over The Next Decade, A Handful Of Scientists, Politicians, And Strategists, Led By Two Unlikely Heroes, Risked Their Careers In A Desperate, Escalating Campaign To Convince The World To Act Before It Was Too Late. [this] Is Their Story-- Introduction : The Reckoning -- Part I. Shouts In The Street : 1979-1982. The Whole Banana : Spring 1979 -- Mirror Worlds : Spring 1979 -- Between Clambake And Chaos : July 1979 -- Enter Cassandra, Raving : 1979-1980 -- A Very Aggressive Defensive Program : 1979-1980 -- Tiger On The Road : October 1980 -- A Deluge Most Unnatural : November 1980-september 1981 -- Heroes And Villains : March 1982 -- The Direction Of An Impending Catastrophe : 1982 -- Part Ii. Bad Science Fiction : 1983-1988. Caution Not Panic : 1983-1984 -- The World Of Action : 1985 -- The Ozone In October : Fall 1985-summer 1986 -- Atmospheric Scientist, New York, N.y. : Fall 1987-spring 1988 -- Part Iii. You Will See Things That You Shall Believe : 1988-1989. Nothing But Bonfires : Summer 1988 -- Signal Weather : June 1988 -- Woodstock For Climate Change : June 1988-april 1989 -- Fragmented World : Fall 1988 -- The Great Includer And The Old Engineer : Spring 1989 -- Natural Processes : May 1989 -- The White House Effect : Spring-fall 1989 -- Skunks At The Garden Party : November 1989 -- Afterword : Glass-bottomed Boats. Nathaniel Rich. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 205-206).