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Greenhouse gases, global warming, thinning ozone layers -understanding the Earth´s climatic changes is one of today´s most pressing international concerns. How fast has the climate changed? Where and why is it changing? What is the impact of climate change on our ecosystems, coastal regions, glaciers, forests, and lakes, and even on the evolution of our own species?
This introduction to the rapidly emerging field of paleoclimatology explains the patterns and processes in the history of the Earth´s climate to answer such essential questions. Using the geologic records of ocean and lake sediment, ice cores, corals, and other natural archives, Principles of Paleoclimatology describes the history of the Earth´s climate -the ice age cycles, sea level changes, volcanic activity, changes in atmosphere and solar radiation -and the resulting, sometimes catastrophic, biotic responses. These paleoclimate records provide a baseline against which we can compare modern climate trends. Designed to give a fundamental background -including both history and methodology -to the discipline of paleoclimatology, this book is the first to advance our understanding of how climate change develops, how those changes are detected, and how the climate of the past can shape the climate of the future.
This introduction to the rapidly emerging field of paleoclimatology explains the patterns and processes in the history of the Earth´s climate to answer such essential questions. Using the geologic records of ocean and lake sediment, ice cores, corals, and other natural archives, Principles of Paleoclimatology describes the history of the Earth´s climate -the ice age cycles, sea level changes, volcanic activity, changes in atmosphere and solar radiation -and the resulting, sometimes catastrophic, biotic responses. These paleoclimate records provide a baseline against which we can compare modern climate trends. Designed to give a fundamental background -including both history and methodology -to the discipline of paleoclimatology, this book is the first to advance our understanding of how climate change develops, how those changes are detected, and how the climate of the past can shape the climate of the future.
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AS THE ROYAL MATHEMATICIAN living near Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic, Johannes Kepler's job in the early seventeenth century was to forecast the weather and cast horoscopes for the empire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern paleoclimatology, paleoclimate trends, precessional influence, global climate signal, interhemispheric synchroneity, geoidal changes, ice sheet decay, past glacial period, rapid climate transitions, climate reversals, paleoclimate records, astronomical tuning, oceanic circulation changes, paleoclimate research, foraminiferal ecology, insolation changes, orbital influence, centennial time scales, micropaleontological evidence, paleoclimate evidence, paleoclimate data, continental aridity, orbital time scales, climatic warmth, proxy tools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Younger Dryas, North Atlantic, Little Ice Age, Pacific Ocean, North America, Southern Hemisphere, Medieval Warm Period, United States, New Guinea, Southern Oscillation, Nordic Seas, Camp Century, South American, Devils Hole, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Urvina Bay, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Chiriqui, Antarctic Peninsula, Greenland Ice Sheet, Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay, Gulf of Panama, Tarawa Atoll New!
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AS THE ROYAL MATHEMATICIAN living near Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic, Johannes Kepler's job in the early seventeenth century was to forecast the weather and cast horoscopes for the empire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern paleoclimatology, paleoclimate trends, precessional influence, global climate signal, interhemispheric synchroneity, geoidal changes, ice sheet decay, past glacial period, rapid climate transitions, climate reversals, paleoclimate records, astronomical tuning, oceanic circulation changes, paleoclimate research, foraminiferal ecology, insolation changes, orbital influence, centennial time scales, micropaleontological evidence, paleoclimate evidence, paleoclimate data, continental aridity, orbital time scales, climatic warmth, proxy tools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Younger Dryas, North Atlantic, Little Ice Age, Pacific Ocean, North America, Southern Hemisphere, Medieval Warm Period, United States, New Guinea, Southern Oscillation, Nordic Seas, Camp Century, South American, Devils Hole, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Urvina Bay, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Chiriqui, Antarctic Peninsula, Greenland Ice Sheet, Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay, Gulf of Panama, Tarawa Atoll New!
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- Abrupt Climatic Change - Evidence and Implications (NATO Science Series C: (closed)) by W.H. Berger on 8 pages
- The Little Ice Age by Jean M. Grove on 6 pages
- The Medieval Warm Period by Malcolm K. Hughes on 6 pages
- The Last Deglaciation: Absolute and Radiocarbon Chronologies (Nato a S I Series Series I, Global Environmental Change) by Edouard Bard on 4 pages
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 104, page 137, and Back Matter
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- Speciation by Jerry A. Coyne in Back Matter
- Environmental Magnetism, Volume 86: Principles and Applications of Enviromagnetics (International Geophysics) by Mark Evans MD FRCP in Back Matter
- Dynamical Paleoclimatology, Volume 80: Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change (International Geophysics) by Barry Saltzman in Front Matter
- EPSL Frontiers, Volume 1: Collection 2002-2003 (Vol 1) by A. Halliday on page 263
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