Two-Mile Time Machine

Richard B Alley

RRP: £13.95

Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESSES

Publication Date : 01/07/2002

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

One of the world's leading climate researchers, Richard B Alley, tells the story of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings from ice cores drilled in Greenland.

Publisher's description:

Offers an account of the wildly fluctuating climate that characterized most of prehistory - long deep freezes alternating briefly with mild conditions - and explains that we humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate. The author warns, our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years.

ISBN: 9780691102962