| Description |
290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Facing our climate adversary squarely -- 2. The ice time -- 3. Staggering complexities and surprising side effects -- 4. From woolly mammoths to saber-toothed tigers -- 5. Miraculous mud -- 6. Wood reveals climate clues -- 7. The evidence of the ice -- 8. Even more frequent boom-bust cycles -- 9. Have humans shaped climate for millennia? -- 10. From efforts to modify climate to fears of global cooling -- 11. Global warming discovered -- 12. Leaving the garden |
| Summary |
In public debates about global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media. We rarely hear from geologists, who for almost two hundred years have been studying the history of Earth's dramatic and repeated climate revolutions, as revealed in the evidence of rocks and landscapes. The author describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Climatic changes.
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Paleoclimatology.
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| LC no. |
2012023389 |
| ISBN |
1616146729 (hbk.) |
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9781616146726 (hbk.) |
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