The fate of Greenland :: lessons from abrupt climate change /
Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west. But this stark view of ice and snow is changing--and changing rapidly. Greenland's ice sheet is melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking off Greenland's rapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction. The Fate of Greenland documents Greenland's warming with dramatic color photographs and investigates Greenland's climate history for clues about what happens when climate change is abrupt rather than gradual. Geological evidence suggests that Greenland has already been affected by two dramatic changes in climate: the Medieval Warm Period, when warm temperatures in Northern Europe enabled Norse exploration and settlements in Greenland; and the Little Ice Age that followed and apparently wiped out the settlements. Greenland's climate past and present could presage our climate future. Abrupt climate change would be cataclysmic: the melting of Greenland's ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide; lower Manhattan would be underwater and Florida's coastline would recede to Orlando. The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbated by carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere. As this book makes clear, it is in all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland.--Publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| spelling | Conkling, Philip W., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80012850 The fate of Greenland : lessons from abrupt climate change / Philip Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George Denton ; photographs by Gary Comer. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. 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. Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west. But this stark view of ice and snow is changing--and changing rapidly. Greenland's ice sheet is melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking off Greenland's rapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction. The Fate of Greenland documents Greenland's warming with dramatic color photographs and investigates Greenland's climate history for clues about what happens when climate change is abrupt rather than gradual. Geological evidence suggests that Greenland has already been affected by two dramatic changes in climate: the Medieval Warm Period, when warm temperatures in Northern Europe enabled Norse exploration and settlements in Greenland; and the Little Ice Age that followed and apparently wiped out the settlements. Greenland's climate past and present could presage our climate future. Abrupt climate change would be cataclysmic: the melting of Greenland's ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide; lower Manhattan would be underwater and Florida's coastline would recede to Orlando. The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbated by carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere. As this book makes clear, it is in all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland.--Publisher description. Climatic changes Greenland. Global warming Greenland. Greenland Environmental conditions. Climat Changements Groenland. Réchauffement de la Terre Groenland. NATURE Weather. bisacsh SCIENCE Earth Sciences Meteorology & Climatology. bisacsh SCIENCE Environmental Science. bisacsh Climatic changes fast Ecology fast Global warming fast Greenland fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqvYRpxcqYcthtVYGtYfq Klimaänderung gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4164199-1 Grönland gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4022113-1 Alley, Richard B., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87108269 Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-2019, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjMwTh9kMqrYcRYvDbPQq Denton, George H., 1939- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxRBWVDhmkBVYgcmXpHG3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80005433 Comer, Gary, photographer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006109474 Print version: Fate of Greenland. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262015646 (DLC) 2010040698 (OCoLC)667213148 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=373287 Volltext |
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