The climate question : natural cycles, human impact, future outlook /
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The climate question : natural cycles, human impact, future outlook /

In 2015, annual average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels surpassed a level of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in three million years. This has caused widespread concern among climate scientists, and not least among those that work on natural climate variability in prehistoric t...

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Main Author: Rohling, Eelco J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Scholarship Online
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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Access:Online version
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Summary:In 2015, annual average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels surpassed a level of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in three million years. This has caused widespread concern among climate scientists, and not least among those that work on natural climate variability in prehistoric times, before humans. These people are known as 'past climate' or palaeoclimate researchers, and author Eelco J. Rohling is one of them. 'The Climate Question' offers a background to these concerns in straightforward terms, with examples, and is motivated by Rohling's personal experience in being intensely quizzed about whether modern change is not all just part of a natural cycle, whether nature will not simply resolve the issue for us, or whether it won't be just up to some novel engineering to settle things quickly.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2019.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 162 pages) : illustrations.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780197559918 (ebook)
0197559913 (ebook)
9780190910877
Access:Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons.