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Climate change : shifting glaciers, deserts, and climate belts
/ Timothy Kusky
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2009
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| Location | Шифры хранения | Status |
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| New Utrecht YA Non-Fic | 551.6 K | CHECK SHELVES |
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| Оисание |
xviii, 156 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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| Название серии |
Hazardous earth
Hazardous earth.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-[148]) and index.
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| Summary |
An engrossing history of Earth's climate, including a thorough examination of the myriad causes of climate change over time, human-induced climate change over the past 200 years, and the affect that climate change has had on the environment.
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| Contents |
Natural long-term climate change: atmospheric evolution, plate tectonics, supercontinents, and solar evolution -- Natural medium- and short-term climate change: astronomical forcing, El Niño-southern oscillation, thermohaline circulation, and massive volcanism -- Human-induced climate changes -- Global climate changes that lead to droughts and desert formation -- Examples of expanding deserts and drought disasters -- Shrinking glaciers -- Past, present, and future : prediction and mitigation of future climate change -- Summary.
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9780816064663 :
0816064660
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