The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780875909851)

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.

Author: Dan Seidov
ISBN-10: 087590985X
ISBN-13: 9780875909851
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 10.60h x 8.40w x 0.90d