Richard B. Alley

Broschiertes Buch

The Two-Mile Time Machine

Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Richard B. Alley With a new preface by the author

Produktdetails

• Princeton Science Library
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Updated Edition
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780691160832
• ISBN-10: 069116083X
• Artikelnr.: 40818855

Rezensionen

"Although not all scientists will agree with Alley's conclusions, [this] engaging book--a brilliant combination of scientific thriller, memoir and environmental science--provides instructive glimpses into our climatic past and global future . . . "--Publisher's Weekly