The Two-Mile Time Machine : : Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition / / Richard B. Alley.

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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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Updated edition with a New Preface
Language:English
Series:Princeton Science Library ; 101
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Illustration --   |t Preface to the New Paperback Edition --   |t PART I. SETTING THE STAGE --   |t 1. Fast Forward --   |t 2. Pointers to the Past --   |t PART II. READING THE RECORD --   |t 3. Going to Greenland --   |t 4. The Icy Archives-Ice Sheets and Glaciers --   |t 5. Ice Age through the Ice Age --   |t 6. How Cold of Old? --   |t 7. Dust in the Wind --   |t 8. Tiny Bubbles in the Ice --   |t PART III. CRAZY CLIMATES --   |t 9. The Saurian Sauna --   |t 10. The Solar System Swing --   |t 11. Dancing to the Orbital Band --   |t 12. What the Worms Turned --   |t PART IV. WHY THE WEIRDNESS? --   |t 13. How Climate Works --   |t 14. A Chaotic Conveyor? --   |t 15. Shoving the System --   |t PART V. COMING CRAZINESS? --   |t 16. Fuelish --   |t 17. Down the Road --   |t 18. An Ice-Core View of the Future --   |t APPENDIXES --   |t Appendix 1. A Cast of Characters --   |t Appendix 2. Usage of Units --   |t Sources and Related Information --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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