The trials of Gaia : milestones in the evolution of Earth with reference to the Anthropocene / Andrew Yoram Glikson.
Glikson, A. Y., author.
2023
QH331 .G55 2023
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Title
The trials of Gaia : milestones in the evolution of Earth with reference to the Anthropocene / Andrew Yoram Glikson.
Author
Glikson, A. Y., author.
ISBN
9783031237096 electronic book
3031237099 electronic book
9783031237089
3031237080
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23709-6
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 127 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-23709-6 doi
Call Number
QH331 .G55 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
560/.45
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2023).
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Trials of Gaia.
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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.

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