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The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition
Richard B. Alley
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Description for The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition
Paperback. Series: Princeton Science Library. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTNG; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
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 humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we ... Read more
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 humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Princeton Science Library
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691160832
SKU
V9780691160832
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About Richard B. Alley
Richard B. Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The author of more than 240 scientific papers, he was also the host of the PBS miniseries Earth: The Operators' Manual.
Reviews for The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition
Winner of the 2001 Book Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa One of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001 "Although not all scientists will agree with Alley's conclusions, [this] engaging book
a brilliant combination of scientific thriller, memoir and environmental science
provides instructive glimpses into our climatic past and global future ... "
Publisher's Weekly "Alley's ... striking finding is that the earth's ... Read more
a brilliant combination of scientific thriller, memoir and environmental science
provides instructive glimpses into our climatic past and global future ... "
Publisher's Weekly "Alley's ... striking finding is that the earth's ... Read more