Alley, Richard B.
The Two-Mile Time Machine : Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource. - Princeton Science Library . - Princeton science library. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the stage -- Reading the record -- Crazy climates -- Why the weirdness? -- Coming craziness? -- A cast of characters -- Usage of units. appendix 1. appendix 2.
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 from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next. --
In English.
9781400852246 1400852242 9781306906906 1306906903 9780691160832 069116083X
10.1515/9781400852246 doi
22573/ctt6v9qcx JSTOR 9452435 IEEE
2014941635
GBB5A0597 bnb
Paleoclimatology.
Climatic changes.
Ice--Analysis.--Greenland
Climate Change
Ice--analysis
Pal�eoclimatologie.
Climat--Changements.
Glace--Analyse.--Groenland
climate change.
NATURE--Ecology.
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Wilderness.
SCIENCE--Environmental Science.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Meteorology & Climatology.
Climatic changes.
Ice--Analysis.
Paleoclimatology.
Greenland
Greenland.
Electronic books.
QC884 / .A384 2014
577.22
The Two-Mile Time Machine : Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource. - Princeton Science Library . - Princeton science library. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the stage -- Reading the record -- Crazy climates -- Why the weirdness? -- Coming craziness? -- A cast of characters -- Usage of units. appendix 1. appendix 2.
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 from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next. --
In English.
9781400852246 1400852242 9781306906906 1306906903 9780691160832 069116083X
10.1515/9781400852246 doi
22573/ctt6v9qcx JSTOR 9452435 IEEE
2014941635
GBB5A0597 bnb
Paleoclimatology.
Climatic changes.
Ice--Analysis.--Greenland
Climate Change
Ice--analysis
Pal�eoclimatologie.
Climat--Changements.
Glace--Analyse.--Groenland
climate change.
NATURE--Ecology.
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Wilderness.
SCIENCE--Environmental Science.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Meteorology & Climatology.
Climatic changes.
Ice--Analysis.
Paleoclimatology.
Greenland
Greenland.
Electronic books.
QC884 / .A384 2014
577.22