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050 00 TJ163.2|b.A43 2011 
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100 1  Alley, Richard B.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n87108269 
245 10 Earth :|bthe operators' manual /|cRichard B. Alley. 
250    1st ed. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton,|c[2011] 
264  4 |c©2011 
300    x, 479 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  pt. 1. The burning question -- Prepare to come about -- 
       Burning to learn -- Peak trees and peak whale oil -- pt. 
       2. Learning while we burn -- Fossil fuelish--some telling 
       facts -- Abraham Lincoln or your brother-in-law? -- Red, 
       white, and blue-green -- Canting the kayak -- Why 
       accountants and physicists care about the past -- The 
       moving finger writes -- And having writ, moves on -- The 
       great ice that covers the land -- Kindergarten soccer and 
       the last century of climate -- But my brother-in-law 
       said... -- The future -- Valuing the future -- pt. 3. The 
       road to ten billion smiling people -- Toilets and the 
       smart grid -- Sustainable solutions on the wind -- Sun and
       water -- Down by the sea, where the water power grows -- 
       Power from the land -- Put it where the sun doesn't shine:
       nuclear energy and carbon sequestration -- Conservation--
       why saving energy doesn't mean sitting around in the dark 
       -- Game-changers? Geoengineering, fusion, and... -- Ten 
       billion and smiling. 
508    Director of photography, Art Howard ; editor/2nd camera, 
       Andrew Quinn ; researcher, Evantheia Schibsted ; music, 
       DeWolfe Music. 
511 0  Presenter/science editor, Richard Alley. 
520    Since the discovery of fire, humans have been energy 
       users. And this is a good thing; our mastery of energy is 
       what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom and 
       has allowed us to be the dominant species on the planet. 
       However, this mastery comes with a price: we are changing 
       our environment in a profoundly negative way by heating it
       up. Using one engaging story after another, coupled with 
       accessible scientific facts, the author explores the 
       history of energy use by humans over the centuries, gives 
       a doubt-destroying proof that already-high levels of 
       carbon dioxide are causing damaging global warming, and 
       surveys the alternative energy options that are available 
       to exploit right now. These new energy sources might well 
       be the engines for economic growth in the twenty-first 
       century. --From publisher description. 
650  0 Energy development|xEnvironmental aspects|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009124919|xHistory.
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 
650  0 Renewable energy sources.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85112837 
650  0 Global warming.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh89000812 
650  7 Energy development|xEnvironmental aspects.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/910043 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Renewable energy sources.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/1094570 
650  7 Global warming.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/943506
655  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 
901    MARCIVE 20231220 
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