The Goldilocks planet
Subtitle: the four billion year story of Earth's climate
By: Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams
Contributors: Williams, Mark, 1965-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780199593576
Subjects: Forecasting; Climatic changes; Nature; Paleobiogeography; Effect of human beings on; Paleoclimatology; Global environmental change; Historical geology
Other titles: Four billion year story of Earth's climate
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Primordial climate; title: Earth as a snowball; title: Between greenhouse and icehouse; title: The last greenhouse world; title: The ice returns; title: The last of the warmth; title: Into the icehouse; title: The glacial world; title: Birth and death of the Holocene; title: The anthropocene begins.