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Climate code red : the case for emergency action / Philip Sutton and David Spratt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carlton North, Vic. : Scribe Publications, 2008.Description: 304 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781921372209 (pbk.) :
DDC classification:
  • 363.73874 22
Partial contents:
Pt. One: The Big Melt -- 1. Losing the Arctic sea-ice -- 2. Greenland's fate -- 3. Trouble in the Antarctic -- 4. A rising tide -- 5. The quickening pace -- 6. Most species, most ecosystems -- 7. The price of reticence -- Pt. Two: Targets -- 8. What we are doing -- 9. Where we are headed -- 10. Target 2 degrees -- 11. Getting the third degree -- 12. Planning the alternatice -- 13. The safe-climate zone -- 14. Putting the plan together -- Pt. Three: The climate emergency -- 15. The is an Emergency -- 16. A systemic breakdown -- 17. When 'reasonable' is not enough -- 18. The gap between knowing and not-knowing -- 19. Making effective decisions -- 20. The new 'business-as-usual' -- 21. Climate solutions -- 22. Can 'politics as usual' solve the problem? -- 23. What does an emergency look like? -- 24. The climate emergency in practice -- 25. The safe-climate economy -- 26. In the end.
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Books Books Australian Emergency Management Library BOOK 363.73874 SUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900182768

Includes bibliography (pp. 267-295) and index (pp. 297-304).

Pt. One: The Big Melt -- 1. Losing the Arctic sea-ice -- 2. Greenland's fate -- 3. Trouble in the Antarctic -- 4. A rising tide -- 5. The quickening pace -- 6. Most species, most ecosystems -- 7. The price of reticence -- Pt. Two: Targets -- 8. What we are doing -- 9. Where we are headed -- 10. Target 2 degrees -- 11. Getting the third degree -- 12. Planning the alternatice -- 13. The safe-climate zone -- 14. Putting the plan together -- Pt. Three: The climate emergency -- 15. The is an Emergency -- 16. A systemic breakdown -- 17. When 'reasonable' is not enough -- 18. The gap between knowing and not-knowing -- 19. Making effective decisions -- 20. The new 'business-as-usual' -- 21. Climate solutions -- 22. Can 'politics as usual' solve the problem? -- 23. What does an emergency look like? -- 24. The climate emergency in practice -- 25. The safe-climate economy -- 26. In the end.

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