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EBOOK Goldilocks Planet:The 4 billion year story of Earth's climate
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191634024
EAN: DE4315A8EB
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Stron: 336
Data wydania: 2012
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Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and        politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as        predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level take place, and as        human society adapts to these changes.In this remarkable new work, Jan Zalasiewicz        and Mark Williams demonstrate how the Earth's climate has continuously altered over        its 4.5 billion-year history. The story can be read from clues preserved in the        Earth's strata - the evidence is abundant, though always incomplete, and also often        baffling, puzzling, infuriating, tantalizing, seemingly contradictory. Geologists,        though, are becoming ever more ingenious at interrogating this evidence, and the        story of the Earth's climate is now beingreconstructed in ever-greater detail -        maybe even providing us with clues to the future of contemporary climate change.The        history is dramatic and often abrupt. Changes in global and regional climate range        from bitterly cold to sweltering hot, from arid to humid, and they have impacted        hugely upon the planet's evolving animal and plant communities, and upon its        physical landscapes of the Earth. And yet, through all of this, the Earth has        remained consistently habitable for life for over three billion years - in stark        contrast to its planetary neighbours. Not too hot, not too cold; not too dry, not        too wet, itis aptly known as 'the Goldilocks planet'.

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