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Waters of the World - the story of the climate in six remarkable lives (Hardcover)
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Waters of the World - the story of the climate in six remarkable lives (Hardcover)
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A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NATURE, THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS, AND
BOOKLIST. How did we come to have a global climate? What role do
the complex interactions of ice, ocean, and atmosphere play in
sustaining life on Planet Earth? And who are the scientists who
figured all these intricate processes out? Waters of the World is a
tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but
underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system
made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales
of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global
warming and climate change, this idea was forged by scientists
studying water in its myriad forms. This is their story. Linking
the history of the planet with the lives of those who studied it,
Sarah Dry follows the remarkable scientists who ascended volcanic
peaks to peer through an atmosphere's worth of water vapour, cored
mile-thick ice sheets to uncover the Earth's ancient climate
history, and flew inside storm clouds to understand how small
changes in energy can produce both massive storms and the general
circulation of the Earth's atmosphere. Each toiled on his or her
own corner of the planetary puzzle. Gradually, their cumulative
discoveries coalesced into a unified working theory of our planet's
climate. We now call this field climate science, and in recent
years it has provoked great passions, anxieties, and warnings. But
no less than the object of its study, the science of water and
climate is - and always has been - evolving. By revealing the
complexity of this history, Waters of the World delivers a better
understanding of our planet's climate at a time when we need it the
most.
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