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Title The fate of Greenland : lessons from abrupt climate change / Philip Conkling ... [et al.] ; photographs by Gary Comer.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  551.69982 F268 2011    ---  Available
Description xiv, 216 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Lessons from abrupt climate change -- Mystery of the Ice Ages -- Rosetta Stones from the Greenland ice sheet -- A role for all seasons -- The great ocean conveyor -- A wobbly North Atlantic conveyor? -- Greenland's climate signal across the globe -- Carbon dioxide and the fate of the Greenland ice sheet -- Out of the ice : the lessons from Greenland.
Awards Phi Beta Kappa Science Books Award, 2012
Subject Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Greenland.
Global warming -- Greenland.
Greenland -- Environmental conditions.
Added Author Conkling, Philip W.
Alley, Richard B.
Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-2019.
Denton, George H., 1939-
ISBN 9780262525268 (pbk.)
9780262015646 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262015641 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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