Two-Mile Time Machine Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

Name: Two-Mile Time Machine Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
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ISBN: 9780691102962

ISBN-10: 0691102961

ISBN-13: 9780691102962

Edition: 2000

Authors: Richard B. Alley

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This work demonstrates how the history of global climate changes can be revealed by the analysis of the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland.

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.748



List of Illustrations



Setting the Stage



Fast Forward



Pointers to the Past



Reading the Record



Going to Greenland



The Icy Archives--Ice Sheets and Glaciers



Ice Age through the Ice Age



How Cold of Old?



Dust in the Wind



Tiny Bubbles in the Ice



Crazy Climates



The Saurian Sauna



The Solar System Swing



Dancing to the Orbital Band



What the Worms Turned



Why the Weirdness?



How Climate Works



A Chaotic Conveyor?



Shoving the System



Coming Craziness?



Fuelish



Down the Road



An Ice-Core View of the Future


Appendixes



A Cast of Characters



Usage of Units


Sources and Related Information


Acknowledgments


Index