Experimenting on a Small Planet (Record no. 96861)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642285608
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-28560-8
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hay, William W.
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245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Experimenting on a Small Planet
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title A Scholarly Entertainment /
Statement of responsibility, etc by William W. Hay.
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2013.
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Extent XXIV, 963 p. 403 illus.
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The Language of Science -- Geologic Time -- Putting Numbers on Geologic Ages -- Discovering Past Climate Change -- The Nature of Energy Received from the Sun - The Analogies with Water Waves and Sound -- The Nature of Energy Received from the Sun - Figuring out what Light really is -- Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum -- The Origins of Climate Science - The Idea of Energy Balance -- The Climate System -- What's at the Bottom of Alice's Rabbit Hole? -- Energy from the Sun - Long-term Variations -- Solar Variability -- Albedo -- Air -- HOH - The Keystone of Earth's Climate -- Greenhouse Gasses -- The Circulation of Earth’s Atmosphere and Ocean -- The Biological Interactions -- Sea level -- Global Climate Change - the (Geologically) Immediate Past -- Is there an Analog for the Future Climate? -- The Instrumental Temperature Record -- What is Expected in the 21st Century -- Beyond 2100 - The Return to Warm Earth -- Titanic Timeline.
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Summary, etc This book is an introduction to climate science and global change. It includes the scientific background in physics, chemistry and biology. The science chapters are interleaved with biographical material including personal reminiscences. The science chapters discuss the history of development of ideas in geology, the discovery of Earth’s very different climates in the distant past, and the climate oscillations of the ice ages. Special treatment is given to past warm climates. The role of greenhouse gases in controlling Earth’s climate, along with a discussion of the associated physics. It develops the idea that humans have played a role in climate change throughout the past few millennia, rather than just since the beginning of the industrial revolution. It concludes by introducing the idea that the result of the present perturbation may be the transition to an ice-free warm world.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geography.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climatic changes.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Earth Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climate Change.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular Science in Nature and Environment.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Earth System Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Historical Geology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geology.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642285592
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28560-8
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