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Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past
by
Chris Turney
Imagine a world of wildly escalating temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea levels.This might sound like a prediction for the future or the storyline of a new Hollywood blockbuster but it’s actually what occurred on earth in the past.In a day and age when worrying forecasts for future climate change are the norm, it seems hard to believ...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
May 27th 2008
by Palgrave Macmillan
(first published 2008)
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Fact-loaded but still a page-turner, this book sets forth a thorough and compelling case for global warming being man-made and, just possibly, something that might be arrested in time to save mankind.
Fairly engaging summary of past climate changes. Pretty easy to understand, but sometimes I got a bit confused about event timing - narrative went back and forth between geological time periods using years sometimes ("55 mya) and other times period names (the Eemain). I really would have appreciated a nice timeline.
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