Two-mile time machine : ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future / Richard B. Alley ; with a new preface by the author.

By:

Alley, Richard B [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton science libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Edition: First Princeton science library editionDescription: xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:

9780691160832 (pbk)

Other title:

The two-mile time machine
2 mile time machine
Ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future

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DDC classification:

551.60901 ALL 23

LOC classification:

.A55 2014

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Summary: 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 order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next. -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	551.60901 ALL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K5243

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.

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 order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next. -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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