Zalasiewicz, J. A.
Oxford [England] New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.
- Primordial climate — Earth as a snowball — Between greenhouse and icehouse — The last greenhouse world — The ice returns — The last of the warmth — Into the icehouse — The glacial world — Birth and death of the Holocene — The anthropocene begins.
- Presents a history of climate to reveal that the climatic changes happening hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.
Subjects:
- Paleoclimatology.
- Climatic changes.
- Historical geology.
- Paleobiogeography.
- Global environmental change — Forecasting.
- Nature — Effect of human beings on.
Requested by Engebretson, M