The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change

von Dan Seidov

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780875909851
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2001
• Größe: 269 x 213 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons