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] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Updated edition with a New Preface |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustration
- Preface to the New Paperback Edition
- PART I. SETTING THE STAGE
- 1. Fast Forward
- 2. Pointers to the Past
- PART II. READING THE RECORD
- 3. Going to Greenland
- 4. The Icy Archives-Ice Sheets and Glaciers
- 5. Ice Age through the Ice Age
- 6. How Cold of Old?
- 7. Dust in the Wind
- 8. Tiny Bubbles in the Ice
- PART III. CRAZY CLIMATES
- 9. The Saurian Sauna
- 10. The Solar System Swing
- 11. Dancing to the Orbital Band
- 12. What the Worms Turned
- PART IV. WHY THE WEIRDNESS?
- 13. How Climate Works
- 14. A Chaotic Conveyor?
- 15. Shoving the System
- PART V. COMING CRAZINESS?
- 16. Fuelish
- 17. Down the Road
- 18. An Ice-Core View of the Future
- APPENDIXES
- Appendix 1. A Cast of Characters
- Appendix 2. Usage of Units
- Sources and Related Information
- Acknowledgments
- Index