Climate change : shifting glaciers, deserts, and climate belts /
Kusky, Timothy M.
Climate change : shifting glaciers, deserts, and climate belts / Timothy Kusky - New York : Facts on File, c2009 - xviii, 156 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - The Hazardous Earth . - The Hazardous Earth .
Includes bibliographical references and index
Natural long-term climate change: atmospheric evolution, plate tectonics, supercontinents, and solar evolution -- Natural medium- and short-term climate change: astronomical forcing, El Niño-southern oscillation, thermohaline circulation, and massive volcanism -- Human- induced climate changes -- Global climate changes that lead to droughts and desert formation -- Examples of expanding deserts and drought disasters -- Shrinking glaciers -- Past, present, and future : prediction and mitigation of future climate change -- Summary
An engrossing history of Earth's climate, including a thorough examination of the myriad causes of climate change over time, human-induced climate change over the past 200 years, and the affect that climate change has had on the environment
9780816064663 0816064660
Climatic changes
Climatic changes--Environmental aspects
Climatic zones
Climate change : shifting glaciers, deserts, and climate belts / Timothy Kusky - New York : Facts on File, c2009 - xviii, 156 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - The Hazardous Earth . - The Hazardous Earth .
Includes bibliographical references and index
Natural long-term climate change: atmospheric evolution, plate tectonics, supercontinents, and solar evolution -- Natural medium- and short-term climate change: astronomical forcing, El Niño-southern oscillation, thermohaline circulation, and massive volcanism -- Human- induced climate changes -- Global climate changes that lead to droughts and desert formation -- Examples of expanding deserts and drought disasters -- Shrinking glaciers -- Past, present, and future : prediction and mitigation of future climate change -- Summary
An engrossing history of Earth's climate, including a thorough examination of the myriad causes of climate change over time, human-induced climate change over the past 200 years, and the affect that climate change has had on the environment
9780816064663 0816064660
Climatic changes
Climatic changes--Environmental aspects
Climatic zones