| The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future Contributor(s): Seidov, Dan (Editor), Haupt, Bernd J. (Editor), Maslin, Mark A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 087590985X ISBN-13: 9780875909851 Publisher: American Geophysical Union OUR PRICE: $70.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Weather - Science | Physics - Geophysics - Science | Earth Sciences - Oceanography |
| Dewey: 551.609 |
| LCCN: 2001045701 |
| Series: Geophysical Monograph |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.4" W x 10.6" (2.10 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 126. Until a few decades ago, scientists generally believed that significant large-scale past global and regional climate changes occurred at a gradual pace within a time scale of many centuries or millennia. A secondary assumption followed: climate change was scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. Recent paleoclimatic studies, however, have proven otherwise: that global climate can change extremely rapidly. In fact, there is good evidence that in the past at least regional mean annual temperatures changed by several degrees Celsius on a time scale of several centuries to several decades. |