Fate of Greenland Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change

Name: Fate of Greenland Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
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ISBN: 9780262525268

ISBN-10: 0262525267

ISBN-13: 9780262525268

Edition: 2011

Authors: Philip Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, George Denton

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Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only byscattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its icesheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600miles from east to west. But this stark view of ice and snow is changing -- and changing rapidly.Greenland's ice sheet is melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking offGreenland's rapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction. The Fate ofGreenland documents Greenland's warming with dramatic color photographs and investigatesepisodes in Greenland's climate history for clues about what…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 8.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Wallace Broecker, an oceanographer, is Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University and a winner of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences.

George Denton, a geologist, is Professor of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Studies at theUniversity of Maine.