The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change
Author | : Dan Seidov |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-01-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780875909851 |
ISBN-13 | : 087590985X |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change written by Dan Seidov and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-01-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 126. Until a few decades ago, scientists generally believed that significant large-scale past global and regional climate changes occurred at a gradual pace within a time scale of many centuries or millennia. A secondary assumption followed: climate change was scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. Recent paleoclimatic studies, however, have proven otherwise: that global climate can change extremely rapidly. In fact, there is good evidence that in the past at least regional mean annual temperatures changed by several degrees Celsius on a time scale of several centuries to several decades.