UID:
almahu_9949468849702882
Umfang:
XV, 127 p. 87 illus., 81 illus. in color.
,
online resource.
Ausgabe:
1st ed. 2023.
ISBN:
9783031237096
Inhalt:
This books presents a documentation and resulting perspectives regarding James Lovelock's multidisciplinary evolution theory. It looks at past and current climate changes and their consequences, including detailed accounts of the global warming. The connection between climate trajectories and extreme weather events, including tropical and arctic fronts, cyclones, fire storms, tropical storms, acidification, tsunami, floods, sea level rise, are referred to in connection with recent developments. The book updates earlier accounts regarding extreme weather events and mass extinctions.
Anmerkung:
The Living Planet -- The dawn of Gaia -- The early Earth crust (4.0-2.6 Ga) -- Early life -- Ica ages and atmospheric oxygenation -- The Ediacaran and Cambrian "explosion" of life -- Phanerozoic mass extinctions -- The Holocene -- The Anthropogenic catastrophe -- A burning planet -- Paleoclimate implications -- Climate zones shifts, ice melt and stadial cooling -- Future climate projections -- The nuclear nightmare.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031237089
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031237102
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031237119
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Einführung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-23709-6
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23709-6
