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Peters, E. Kirsten.
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Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- History.
Climatology -- Research.
Global warming.
Paleoclimatology.
Environmental geology.
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Peters, E. Kirsten.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- History.
Climatology -- Research.
Global warming.
Paleoclimatology.
Environmental geology.
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The whole story of climate : what science reveals about the nature of endless change / E. Kirsten Peters.
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Peters, E. Kirsten.
Prometheus Books, c2012.
Call #:
551
.6
P481w
Subjects
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- History.
Climatology -- Research.
Global warming.
Paleoclimatology.
Environmental geology.
ISBN:
9781616146726 (hc.)
1616146729 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Climate : what science reveals about the nature of endless change
Description:
290 p. : maps, charts ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Facing our climate adversary squarely -- The ice time -- Staggering complexities and surprising side effects -- From woolly mammoths to saber tooth tigers -- Miraculous mud -- Wood reveals climate clues -- The evidence of the ice -- Even more frequent boom-bust cycles -- Have humans shaped climate for millennia? -- From efforts to modify climate to fears of global cooling -- Global warming discovered -- Leaving the garden.
Summary:
Geologist E. Kirsten Peters describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented.
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