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Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
Ice Time Climate Science and Life on Earth Author:Thomas Levenson Our climate, so long taken for granted, has begun to reveal itself as a vital, dynamic system, a system whose vulnerability has become frighteningly apparent. Ice Time is the beautifully written and elegantly composed story of the new science of climate -- about connectedness, about the almost uncanny links that bind th... more »e air, water, winds and all of nature into a delicately calibrated organism. Thomas Levenson opens his book with a trip through milions of years of climate history, on the way examining bubbles of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores mined from deep below the surface, why England is no longer a wine-producing country, and how the weather in India can have disastrous effects on the Peruvian fishing industry. Part II of IceTime takes us into the laboratories of climate scientists, where huge supercomputer models work out possible future climate patterns that may occur over the course of the next century. Some of these patterns are explored in Part III, particularly acid rain, the greenhouse effect, deforestation, and the most controversial of all, nuclear winter. Compelling, provocative and lucid, Ice Time is that rare book that can genuinely change the way we perceive our world.« less