| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 127 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Lovelock, James, 1919-2022
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| SUBJECT |
Lovelock, James, 1919-2022 fast |
| Subject |
Gaia hypothesis.
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Evolutionary paleoecology.
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Climatic changes.
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climate change.
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Climatic changes
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Evolutionary paleoecology
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Gaia hypothesis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031237096 |
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3031237099 |
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