Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future – Review
This literary journalist, (yes they do exist), has originally compiled the history of paleoclimatology into a highly readable and still provoking text. Following the advancement of the science right on up to 2003 reads like a novel. The science’s important discovery is that climate is not a big stasis machine gradually going from ice ages to hot periods and back again. Rather, confirmed proxy data show environmental changes to have been abrupt, a decade or two, and frequent particularly during the ice ages on a international scale as well as during the present era on a local scale. The historical curves are a series of spikes rather than a smooth sine wave. Forcing causes are unknown but direct causes have been easily identified. Climate history exhibits a anarchic system, not a linear one, which throws into question whether or not future climate can even be correctly predicted. Are there feedback rings of great significance? What are the initiators? Nature performs like this on its own but there is no doubt that man’s influence is there as well. Climate Change, Regions, Land Use and the many ways that man influences climate… these should be our focus and not the political term, global warming, with its special focus on carbon dioxide. This book will give you a whole modern kind of climate