The Two-Mile Time Machine : Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition /

In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alley, Richard B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Updated edition with a New Preface
Colección:Princeton Science Library ; 101
Temas:
Ice > Analysis.
Ice > Greenland > Analysis.
Nature > Ecology.
Nature > Ecosystems and Habitats > Wilderness.
Science > Earth Sciences > Meteorology and Climatology.
Science > Environmental Science.
Science > Life Sciences > Ecology.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustration
  • Preface to the New Paperback Edition
  • PART I. SETTING THE STAGE
  • 1. Fast Forward
  • 2. Pointers to the Past
  • PART II. READING THE RECORD
  • 3. Going to Greenland
  • 4. The Icy Archives-Ice Sheets and Glaciers
  • 5. Ice Age through the Ice Age
  • 6. How Cold of Old?
  • 7. Dust in the Wind
  • 8. Tiny Bubbles in the Ice
  • PART III. CRAZY CLIMATES
  • 9. The Saurian Sauna
  • 10. The Solar System Swing
  • 11. Dancing to the Orbital Band
  • 12. What the Worms Turned
  • PART IV. WHY THE WEIRDNESS?
  • 13. How Climate Works
  • 14. A Chaotic Conveyor?
  • 15. Shoving the System
  • PART V. COMING CRAZINESS?
  • 16. Fuelish
  • 17. Down the Road
  • 18. An Ice-Core View of the Future
  • APPENDIXES
  • Appendix 1. A Cast of Characters
  • Appendix 2. Usage of Units
  • Sources and Related Information
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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