The Goldilocks Planet The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate
ISBN: 9780199593576 | 0199593574
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/18/2012
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Climate change is a major topic of concern today and will be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level continue to take place. But as Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams reveal inThe Goldilocks Planet, the climatic changes we are experiencing today hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years. Indeed, the vast history that the authors relate here is dramatic and often abrupt--with massive changes in global and regional climate, from bitterly cold to swel... MORE
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| List of Illustrations | p. xi |
| Prologue | p. xiii |
| A Brief Word on Time | p. xvii |
| Primordial Climate | p. 1 |
| Earth as a Snowball | p. 21 |
| Between Greenhouse and Icehouse | p. 53 |
| The Last Greenhouse World | p. 85 |
| The Ice Returns | p. 107 |
| The Last of the Warmth | p. 133 |
| Into the Icehou... MORE | p. 157 |
| The Glacial World | p. 169 |
| Birth and Death of the Holocene | p. 199 |
| The Anthropocene Begins | p. 229 |
| Notes | p. 269 |
| Further reading | p. 279 |
| References | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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Jan Zalasiewicz is Senior Lecturer in Geology at Leicester University. He is the author of The Earth After Us and The Planet in a Pebble.
Mark Williams is Reader in Geology at Leicester University. Both are established researchers into palaeoclimates and climate change.
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