- 1990 edition. 273 pages
- Published by Bantam Press / Transworld Publishers Ltd.
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards. Format C
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.
The Greenhouse Effect & Gaia. Indexed.
Climatic change is the most important probelm facing mankind over the next fifty years. Burning coal and oil, destruction of forests and the release of methane from agricultural activities are all contributing to the greenhouse effect, making the world warmer than it has been since the time of the dinosaurs.
Hothouse Earth is the first book to examine the greenhouse effect against a broader background of natural climatic processes. Award winning science writer John Gribbin explains exactly why the world is getting warmer, what the change in temperature and rainfall patterns will mean for human society, and what can and must be done to slow the pace of these changes.
If no action is taken, the warmer world of 2030 will not represent a new, stable pattern of climate, but simply pose a further, and more serious, threat to man's survival.
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