The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate /

The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zalasiewicz, J. A.
Imprint:	Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description:	xx, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Paleoclimatology. Climatic changes. Historical geology. Paleobiogeography. Global environmental change -- Forecasting. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Climatic changes. Global environmental change -- Forecasting. Historical geology. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Paleobiogeography. Paleoclimatology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8831357

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Varying Form of Title:	Four billion year story of Earth's climate Earth's climate
Other authors / contributors:	Williams, Mark, 1965-
ISBN:	9780199593576 (acid-free paper) 0199593574 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Prologue
A Brief Word on Time
1. Primordial Climate
2. Earth as a Snowball
3. Between Greenhouse and Icehouse
4. The Last Greenhouse World
5. The Ice Returns
6. The Last of the Warmth
7. Into the Icehouse
8. The Glacial World
9. Birth and Death of the Holocene
10. The Anthropocene Begins
Notes
Further reading
References
Index