Can I read Earth's Climate Evolution on EtoBox?

Earth's Climate Evolution by Colin P. Summerhayes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Earth's Climate Evolution about?

To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth's climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of sciences, not just the rock record uncovered by geologists. In Earth's Climate Evolution , Colin Summerhayes analyzes reports and records of past climate change dating back to the late 18th century to uncover key patterns in the climate system. The book will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about future climate change. The book takes a unique approach to the subject providing a description of the greenhouse and icehouse worlds of the past 450 million years since land plants emerged, ignoring major earlier glaciations like that of Snowball Earth, which occurred around 600 million years ago in a world free of land plants. It describes the evolution of thinking in palaeoclimatology and introduces the main players in the field and how their ideas were received and, in many cases, subsequently modified. It records the arguments and discussions about the merits of different ideas along the way. It also includes several notes made from the author's own personal involveme

Who reads Earth's Climate Evolution?

Author

Colin P. Summerhayes

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell ; published in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781118897393

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Physics, Stem