TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kusky,Timothy M.
TI  - Climate change: shifting glaciers, deserts, and climate belts 
T2  - The Hazardous Earth
SN  - 9780816064663
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Facts on File
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Climatic zones
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -