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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Princeton Science LibraryPublication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014Description: 229 pISBN:
  • 9780691160832
Uniform titles:
  • The Two-Mile Time Machine
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 577.22
LOC classification:
  • QC884 .A384 2014
Online resources: Other related works: Print version The Two-Mile Time Machine : Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our FutureSummary: 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 humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in
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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 humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in

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