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

Alley, Richard B.

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Princeton University Press, 2002

0691102961 / 9780691102962

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In Very Good+ condition. The Two-Mile Time Machine begins with the story behind the extensive research in Greenland in the early 1990s, when scientists were beginning to discover ancient ice as an archive of critical information about the climate. Drilling down two miles into the ice, they found atmospheric chemicals and dust that enabled them to construct a record of such phenomena as wind patterns and precipitation over the past 110,000 years. The record suggests that "switches" as well as "dials" control the earth's climate, affecting, for example, hot ocean currents that today enable roses to grow in Europe farther north than polar bears grow in Canada. Throughout most of history, these currents switched on and off repeatedly (due partly to collapsing ice sheets), throwing much of the world from hot to icy and back again in as little as a few years.Alley explains the discovery process in terms the general reader can understand, while laying out the issues that require further study: What are the mechanisms that turn these dials and flip these switches? Is the earth due for another drastic change, one that will reconfigure coastlines or send certain regions into severe drought? Will global warming combine with natural variations in Earth's orbit to flip the North Atlantic switch again? Predicting the long-term climate is one of the greatest challenges facing scientists in the twenty-first century, and Alley tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future.…

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Titolo
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Autore
Alley, Richard B.
Editore
Princeton University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2002
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Very Good
Rilegatura
Softcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0691102961
ISBN 13
9780691102962
Peso dell'articolo
12 once
Dimensioni
6x0x8
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Science

Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

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