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The two-mile time machine : ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future, Richard B. Alley
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- Summary
-
- "Richard Alley tells the history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he 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
- Here Alley offers the first popular account of the wildly fluctuating climate that characterized most of prehistory - long deep freezes alternating briefly with mild conditions - and explains that we humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate. But, he warns, our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years."
- "The Two-Mile Time Machine begins with the story behind the extensive research in Greenland in the early 1990s, when scientists were beginning to discover ancient ice as an archive of critical information about the climate." "Alley explains the discovery process in terms the general reader can understand, while laying out the issues that require further study."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 229 pages
- Contents
-
- 3.
- Going to Greenland
- 4.
- The icy archives : ice sheets and glaciers
- 5.
- Ice age through the ice age
- 6.
- How cold of old?
- 7.
- Dust in the wind
- pt. 1.
- 8.
- Tiny bubbles in the ice
- pt. 3.
- Crazy climates
- 9.
- The Saurian sauna
- 10.
- The solar system swing
- 11.
- Dancing to the orbital band
- Setting the stage
- 12.
- What the worms turned
- pt. 4.
- Why the weirdness?
- 13.
- How climate works
- 14.
- A chaotic conveyor?
- 15.
- Shoving the system
- 1.
- pt. 5.
- Coming craziness?
- 16.
- Fuelish
- 17.
- Down the road
- 18.
- An ice-core view of the future
- Fast forward
- 2.
- Pointers to the past
- pt. 2.
- Reading the record
- Isbn
- 9780691102962
- Label
- The two-mile time machine : ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future
- Title
- The two-mile time machine
- Title remainder
- ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard B. Alley
- Subject
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- Carottes de forage -- Analyse
- Changement global de l'environnement
- Climat -- Changements
- Climat -- Changements
- Climatic changes
- Climatic changes
- Glace
- Glace -- Groënland -- Analyse
- Greenland
- Hielo -- Groenlandía | Analísis
- IJs (natuur)
- Cambios climáticos
- Ice -- Greenland -- Analysis
- Klimaatveranderingen
- Klimaänderung
- Paleoclimatology
- Paleoclimatology
- Paleoclimatología
- Paläoklimatologie
- Paléoclimatologie
- Paléoclimatologie
- Toekomst
- Treibhauseffekt
- Ice -- Analysis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Richard Alley tells the history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he 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
- Here Alley offers the first popular account of the wildly fluctuating climate that characterized most of prehistory - long deep freezes alternating briefly with mild conditions - and explains that we humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate. But, he warns, our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years."
- "The Two-Mile Time Machine begins with the story behind the extensive research in Greenland in the early 1990s, when scientists were beginning to discover ancient ice as an archive of critical information about the climate." "Alley explains the discovery process in terms the general reader can understand, while laying out the issues that require further study."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alley, Richard B
- Dewey number
- 551.6/09/01
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QC884
- LC item number
- .A55 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Paleoclimatology
- Climatic changes
- Ice
- Paléoclimatologie
- Climat
- Glace
- Climatic changes
- Ice
- Paleoclimatology
- Greenland
- IJs (natuur)
- Klimaatveranderingen
- Toekomst
- Carottes de forage
- Glace
- Paléoclimatologie
- Changement global de l'environnement
- Climat
- Paläoklimatologie
- Klimaänderung
- Treibhauseffekt
- Paleoclimatología
- Cambios climáticos
- Hielo
- Label
- The two-mile time machine : ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future, Richard B. Alley
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 3.
- Going to Greenland
- 4.
- The icy archives : ice sheets and glaciers
- 5.
- Ice age through the ice age
- 6.
- How cold of old?
- 7.
- Dust in the wind
- pt. 1.
- 8.
- Tiny bubbles in the ice
- pt. 3.
- Crazy climates
- 9.
- The Saurian sauna
- 10.
- The solar system swing
- 11.
- Dancing to the orbital band
- Setting the stage
- 12.
- What the worms turned
- pt. 4.
- Why the weirdness?
- 13.
- How climate works
- 14.
- A chaotic conveyor?
- 15.
- Shoving the system
- 1.
- pt. 5.
- Coming craziness?
- 16.
- Fuelish
- 17.
- Down the road
- 18.
- An ice-core view of the future
- Fast forward
- 2.
- Pointers to the past
- pt. 2.
- Reading the record
- Control code
- ocm43729114
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- vii, 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691102962
- Lccn
- 00036730
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o43729114
- (OCoLC)43729114
- Label
- The two-mile time machine : ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future, Richard B. Alley
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 3.
- Going to Greenland
- 4.
- The icy archives : ice sheets and glaciers
- 5.
- Ice age through the ice age
- 6.
- How cold of old?
- 7.
- Dust in the wind
- pt. 1.
- 8.
- Tiny bubbles in the ice
- pt. 3.
- Crazy climates
- 9.
- The Saurian sauna
- 10.
- The solar system swing
- 11.
- Dancing to the orbital band
- Setting the stage
- 12.
- What the worms turned
- pt. 4.
- Why the weirdness?
- 13.
- How climate works
- 14.
- A chaotic conveyor?
- 15.
- Shoving the system
- 1.
- pt. 5.
- Coming craziness?
- 16.
- Fuelish
- 17.
- Down the road
- 18.
- An ice-core view of the future
- Fast forward
- 2.
- Pointers to the past
- pt. 2.
- Reading the record
- Control code
- ocm43729114
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- vii, 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691102962
- Lccn
- 00036730
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o43729114
- (OCoLC)43729114
Subject
- Carottes de forage -- Analyse
- Changement global de l'environnement
- Climat -- Changements
- Climat -- Changements
- Climatic changes
- Climatic changes
- Glace
- Glace -- Groënland -- Analyse
- Greenland
- Hielo -- Groenlandía | Analísis
- IJs (natuur)
- Cambios climáticos
- Ice -- Greenland -- Analysis
- Klimaatveranderingen
- Klimaänderung
- Paleoclimatology
- Paleoclimatology
- Paleoclimatología
- Paläoklimatologie
- Paléoclimatologie
- Paléoclimatologie
- Toekomst
- Treibhauseffekt
- Ice -- Analysis
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