Zalasiewicz, J. A.

The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate / Four billion year story of Earth's climate Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. - xx, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.

Primordial climate -- Earth as a snowball -- Between greenhouse and icehouse -- The last greenhouse world -- The ice returns -- The last of the warmth -- Into the icehouse -- The glacial world -- Birth and death of the Holocene -- The anthropocene begins.

9780199593576 0199593574

SBF2012-ENG


Paleoclimatology.
Climatic changes.
Historical geology.
Paleobiogeography.
Global environmental change--Forecasting.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.

QC884 / .Z35 2012