Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Bulletin
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Supplement no. 1, 1901-1905, etc
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Paleoclimatology
Author: Colin P. SummerhayesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119591473
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Life on our planet depends upon having a climate that changes within narrow limits – not too hot for the oceans to boil away nor too cold for the planet to freeze over. Over the past billion years Earth’s average temperature has stayed close to 14-15°C, oscillating between warm greenhouse states and cold icehouse states. We live with variation, but a variation with limits. Paleoclimatology is the science of understanding and explaining those variations, those limits, and the forces that control them. Without that understanding we will not be able to foresee future change accurately as our population grows. Our impact on the planet is now equal to a geological force, such that many geologists now see us as living in a new geological era – the Anthropocene. Paleoclimatology describes Earth’s passage through the greenhouse and icehouse worlds of the past 800 million years, including the glaciations of Snowball Earth in a world that was then free of land plants. It describes the operation of the Earth’s thermostat, which keeps the planet fit for life, and its control by interactions between greenhouse gases, land plants, chemical weathering, continental motions, volcanic activity, orbital change and solar variability. It explains how we arrived at our current understanding of the climate system, by reviewing the contributions of scientists since the mid-1700s, showing how their ideas were modified as science progressed. And it includes reflections based on the author’s involvement in palaeoclimatic research. The book will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about future climate change. It will be an invaluable course reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students in geology, climatology, oceanography and the history of science.
Votes & Proceedings
Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
Quarterly Index of Additions to the Milwaukee Public Library
Author: Milwaukee Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description