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The fate of Greenland : lessons from abrupt climate change / Philip Conkling ... [et al.] ; photographs by Gary Comer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Environmental aspects--Greenland.
- Climatic changes.
- Global warming--Greenland.
- Global warming.
- Greenland--Environmental conditions.
- Greenland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Experts discuss how Greenland's warming climate--seen in its melting ice sheets and retreating glaciers--could affect the rest of the world.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mystery of the Ice Ages; 2 Rosetta Stones from the Greenland Ice Sheet; 3 A Role for All Seasons; 4 The Great Ocean Conveyor; 5 A Wobbly North Atlantic Conveyor?; 6 Greenland's Climate Signal across the Globe; 7 Carbon Dioxide and the Fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet; 8 Out of the Ice; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-209) and index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14808-0
- 9786613148087
- 0-262-29546-6
- OCLC:
- 868217156
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