书目名称 | Experimenting on a Small Planet | 副标题 | A Scholarly Entertai | 编辑 | William W. Hay | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides climate science background in an easy understandable way.Includes discussion of ancient past climates as possible future analogues.Each chapter is self contained, Science is told as stories.A | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today‘s changing climate.Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand uncontrolled experiment which is leading to unanticipated changes. We follow the twisting path of seemingly unrelated discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and even mathematics to learn how they led to our present knowledge of how our planet works. He explains why the weather is becoming increasingly chaotic as our planet warms at a rate far faster than at any time in its geologic past. He speculates on possible future outcomes, and suggests that nature itself may make some unexpected course corrections. Although the book is written for the layman with little knowledge ofscience or mathematics, it includes information from many diverse fields to provide even those actively working in the field of climatology with a broader view of this developing drama.Experimenting on a Small Plan | 出版日期 | Book 20131st edition | 关键词 | Climate Science; Geology; Global Change; Paleoclimatology; climate change impacts; historical geology | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28560-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-28560-8 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 |
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