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The alarmist : fifty years measuring climate change / Dave Lowe.

The alarmist : fifty years measuring climate change / Dave Lowe.
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551.511092 LOW
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ISBN 9781776564187 (paperback)
Classification 551.511092 LOW
Personal Name Lowe, D. C. (David Charles), Dr
Title The alarmist : fifty years measuring climate change / Dave Lowe.
Production & Copyright Details Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2021.
©2021.
Physical Description 271 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Content type text
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note "His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it's critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of New Zealand's North Island. On a shoestring salary he measured carbon in the atmosphere, collecting vital data towards what became one of the most important discoveries in modern science. What followed was a lifetime's career marked by hope and despair. As realisation dawned of what his measurements meant for the future of the planet, Dave travelled the world to understand more about atmospheric gases, along the way programming some of the earliest computers, designing cutting-edge equipment and conducting experiments both dangerous and mind-numbingly dull. From the sandy beaches of California to the stark winters of West Germany, the mesas of the Rocky Mountains and an Atlantic voyage across the equator, Dave has faced down climate deniers, foot-dragging bureaucracy and widespread complacency to open people's eyes to the effects of increasing fossil fuel emissions on our atmosphere."--Wheelers website.
Subject-Personal Name Lowe, D. C.(David Charles),Dr
Subject - Topical Term Scientists -- New Zealand -- Biography
Atmospheric chemistry -- New Zealand
Climatic changes
Subject - Genre Autobiographies
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