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 DegreesC, 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-119-59138-2
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 560
- Fecha Publicación: 30/07/2020
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés