The Goldilocks Planet
The 4 billion year story of Earth's climate
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the struggle to cope with climate change, what lessons can be learnt from Earth's long history? Two leading geologists explain the important insights science is now able to give us about dramatic changes in Earth's distant past, and the delicate balance...
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In the struggle to cope with climate change, what lessons can be learnt from Earth's long history? Two leading geologists explain the important insights science is now able to give us about dramatic changes in Earth's distant past, and the delicate balance that ensures our planet is 'not too hot, not too cold', but 'just right' to sustain life.
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Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level take place, and as human society adapts to these changes.In this remarkable new work, Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams demonstrate how the Earth's climate has continuously altered over its 4.5 billion-year history. The story can be read from clues preserved in the Earth's strata - the evidence is abundant, though always incomplete, and also often baffling, puzzling, infuriating, tantalizing, seemingly contradictory. Geologists, though, are becoming ever more ingenious at interrogating this evidence, and the story of the Earth's climate is now being
reconstructed in ever-greater detail - maybe even providing us with clues to the future of contemporary climate change.
The history is dramatic and often abrupt. Changes in global and regional climate range from bitterly cold to sweltering hot, from arid to humid, and they have impacted hugely upon the planet's evolving animal and plant communities, and upon its physical landscapes of the Earth. And yet, through all of this, the Earth has remained consistently habitable for life for over three billion years - in stark contrast to its planetary neighbours. Not too hot, not too cold; not too dry, not too wet, it
is aptly known as 'the Goldilocks planet'.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Goldilocks Planet “
Prologue; A Brief Word on Time; 1 Primordial Climate; 2 Earth as a Snowball; 3 Between Greenhouse and Icehouse; 4 The Last Greenhouse World; 5 The Ice Returns; 6 The Last of the Warmth; 7 Into the Icehouse; 8 The Glacial World; 9 Birth and Death of the Holocene; 10 The Anthropocene Begins; Notes; Further reading; References
Autoren-Porträt von Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams
Jan Zalasiewicz ist Dozent für Geologie an der University of Leicester in England und war zuvor für den British Geological Survey tätig. Der mit geologischer Feldarbeit, Paläontologie und Stratigraphie bestens vertraute Autor unterrichtet Studierende in Geologie und Erdgeschichte und erforscht fossile Ökosysteme und Umweltbedingungen über eine Zeitspanne von mehr als 500 Millionen Jahren. Als Geologe an der University of Leicester ist es Zalasiewiczs Beruf, einen Blick in den Abgrund der Zeit zu werfen, wo Millionen von Jahren wie Tage verstreichen ...
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Jan Zalasiewicz , Mark Williams
- 2013, 336 Seiten, 29 Abbildungen, Masse: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199683506
- ISBN-13: 9780199683505
Sprache:
Englisch
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