History of climate change : from the Earth's origins to the Anthropocene / Antonello Provenzale ; translated by Alice Kilgarriff.

"In this comprehensive history of the climate and climate change, Antonello Provenzale explains how the planetary climate system works and how the climate has evolved over millions of years that marked the early history of the Earth, including seas of magma, global glaciations and mass extinctions,...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Coccodrilli al Polo Nord e Ghiacci all'Equatore. English
Main Author: Provenzale, A. (Antonello) (Author)
Other Authors: Kilgarriff, Alice (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Italian
Language and/or Writing System:
Translated from the Italian.
Published: Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2023.
Edition:English edition.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > History.
Climatology.
Climat > Changements > Histoire.
Climatic changes.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:v, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • From the ocean of magma to the great oxygenation
  • A world of fire and ice
  • Light reflected, light re-radiated
  • The explosion that changed the world
  • Between catastrophes and opportunities
  • The living planet
  • Winds up high and currents in the deep
  • The big heat
  • Rain, snow and clouds: the planetary water cycle
  • The planet cools
  • The breath of the ice
  • Agitated ice
  • Conquering the planet
  • The age of humanity
  • Global warming
  • Arctic sentinels
  • The mountain heat
  • Digital twins
  • Knowing in order to anticipate, anticipating in order to act
  • Conclusion: the journey continues.