Earth in Flames discusses how the dinosaurs died, and how their deaths parallel what might happen to people after a nuclear war. The book reflects on the odds of future asteroid impacts, how to stop them, and what the readers personally and together can do to prevent a nuclear war, so that humans don't end up like the dinosaurs.
Earth in Flames discusses how the dinosaurs died, and how their deaths parallel what might happen to people after a nuclear war. The book reflects on the odds of future asteroid impacts, how to stop them, and what the readers personally and together can do to prevent a nuclear war, so that humans don't end up like the dinosaurs.
Owen Brian Toon is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and winner of AGU's Roger Revelle Medal, and AMS's Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal. He was recognized by the United Nations Environmental Program for contributing to the U.N.'s 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Studies, and co-won the Future of Life Institute Award in 2022 for the discovery of Nuclear Winter. Alan Robock is a Distinguished Professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Meteorology. Before graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, 1977-1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland, 1991-1997, before coming to Rutgers in 1998. Prof. Robock was a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface: How We Met and a Brief History * 1: Prologue * Part I Impacts, Asteroid Winters, and Dinosaurs * 2: The Power of Asteroids and Comets: When Will the Next Big One Hit? * 3: Clues from Craters, Assured Destruction, and Ejecta Layers * 4: Worldwide Fires Killed the Dinosaurs * 5: Can We Stop an Asteroid or Comet Collision in the Future? * Part II Humans and Nuclear Winter * 6: You Too Could Build a Bomb: It Can't Be Hard; There Are a Lot of Them * 7: How Many Bombs Are Out There, and How Could They Be Delivered? * 8: Scenarios for War and Near Misses * 9: Are You Being Targeted with a Nuclear Weapon? * 10: Assured Destruction by Nuclear Explosions * 11: Firestorms in Cities * 12: Climate Disaster, Climate Models, and Natural Analogs * 13: Impacts on Humans of Nuclear War * Part III Epilogue. Could It Happen? * 14: Will Humans Become Extinct from an Asteroid Collision or a Nuclear War? * 15: Can We Avoid Nuclear War? * Glossary * Acknowledgments * References * Index
* Preface: How We Met and a Brief History * 1: Prologue * Part I Impacts, Asteroid Winters, and Dinosaurs * 2: The Power of Asteroids and Comets: When Will the Next Big One Hit? * 3: Clues from Craters, Assured Destruction, and Ejecta Layers * 4: Worldwide Fires Killed the Dinosaurs * 5: Can We Stop an Asteroid or Comet Collision in the Future? * Part II Humans and Nuclear Winter * 6: You Too Could Build a Bomb: It Can't Be Hard; There Are a Lot of Them * 7: How Many Bombs Are Out There, and How Could They Be Delivered? * 8: Scenarios for War and Near Misses * 9: Are You Being Targeted with a Nuclear Weapon? * 10: Assured Destruction by Nuclear Explosions * 11: Firestorms in Cities * 12: Climate Disaster, Climate Models, and Natural Analogs * 13: Impacts on Humans of Nuclear War * Part III Epilogue. Could It Happen? * 14: Will Humans Become Extinct from an Asteroid Collision or a Nuclear War? * 15: Can We Avoid Nuclear War? * Glossary * Acknowledgments * References * Index
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