Two-mile time machine, the: ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future - updated edition
Auteur :
Alley, Richard B.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691160832
Date de publication :
26 oct. 2014
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
228 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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