The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change. Spencer Weart.
by Weart, Spencer; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 16Science. Publisher: Physics Today, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Bioclimatology | Climatic changes | Climatology -- Research | Geological time | Glacial epoch | Global temperature changes | Ice core sampling | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | Uniformity of natureDDC classification: 050 Summary: "How fast can our planet's climate change? Too slowly for humans to notice, according to the firm belief of most scientists through much of the 20th century. Any shift of weather patterns, even the Dust Bowl droughts that devastated the Great Plains in the 1930s, was seen as a temporary local excursion." (PHYSICS TODAY) This article examines a recent theory that global climate change can take place over a relatively short time rather than tens of thousands of years.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change, Aug. 2003; pp. 30-36.
"How fast can our planet's climate change? Too slowly for humans to notice, according to the firm belief of most scientists through much of the 20th century. Any shift of weather patterns, even the Dust Bowl droughts that devastated the Great Plains in the 1930s, was seen as a temporary local excursion." (PHYSICS TODAY) This article examines a recent theory that global climate change can take place over a relatively short time rather than tens of thousands of years.
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