Review

CO2 rising

By 2009-11-01T00:00:00

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William Bloss reviews this book aimed at the general reader

CO2 rising

Tyler Volk 

Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2008 | Pp223 | £14.95 | ISBN 978 0 26 222083 5

Reviewed by William Bloss

In this book, Tyler Volk tackles the familiar topic of the greenhouse effect and climate change with a different focus. Aimed at the general reader with a modest scientific background, the first part of the book addresses the interlinked carbon cycling and fluxes between components of the biosphere - loosely, the atmosphere, oceans, soils and living organisms. This leads to the thorny issue of what fraction of emitted CO2 remains in the atmosphere, and over what timescales equilibria are established between the different reservoirs - a crucial issue overlooked in many simple accounts of climate change.

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