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Experimenting on a Small Planet : a Scholarly Entertainment.

This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hay, William W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand uncontrolled experiment which is leading to unanticipated changes. We follow the twisting path of seemingly unrelated discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and even mathematics to learn how th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (998 pages)
ISBN:9783642285608
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