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The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change

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The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change
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Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN/ASIN: 1878220853
ISBN-13: 9781878220851
Number of pages: 224

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This is an authoritative, up-to-date handbook on global change. Written by a scientist for nonscientists, this primer humanizes the great environmental issues of our time - the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and air pollution.

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