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

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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
Autor principal: Alley, Richard B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Paleoclimatology.
Ice > Analysis.
Climatic changes.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
climate change.
Glace > Groenland > Analyse.
Climat > Changements.
Paleoclimatologie.
Ice > analysis
Climate Change
Ice > Greenland > Analysis.
Greenland.
Greenland
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the stage
  • Reading the record
  • Crazy climates
  • Why the weirdness?
  • Coming craziness?
  • appendix 1. A cast of characters
  • appendix 2. Usage of units.

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