Dynamical Paleoclimatology
Subtitle: Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change (International Geophysics)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 15, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780126173314
First sentence: The scientific enterprise proceeds in two main directions: on one hand there is a striving to amass as many raw observational facts as possible, broadening the base of phenomena to be explained, while on the other hand there is a simultaneous effort to find order in these facts by showing they are not wholly independent of one another, but are deducible and predictable, in common, from a set of statement of a relatively general and concise nature (i.e., a theory).