Oxford University Press, USA
The Climate Question: Natural Cycles, Human Impact, Future Outlook
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- Eelco J Rohling
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Hardcover
- 9780190910877
- 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches
- 0.75 pounds
- Social Science > Human Geography
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This book discusses in straightforward terms why climate changes, how it has changed naturally before the industrial revolution made humans important, and how it has changed since then. It compares the scale and rapidity of variations in pre-industrial times with those since the industrial revolution, infers the extent of humanity's impacts, and looks at what these may lead to in the future. Rohling brings together both data and process understanding of climate change. Finally, the book evaluates what Mother Nature could do to deal with the human impact by itself, and what our options are to lend her a hand.
Author Bio
Eelco J Rohling is Professor of Ocean and Climate Change at the Australian National University. He is secondarily affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on ocean and climate change, in particular sea level, climate sensitivity, and past episodes of enhanced carbon burial in ocean sediments.
Rohling earned his PhD from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1991, and his post-doctoral research was split between Utrecht and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. He is former joint chief editor of Paleoceanography, current editor of Reviews of Geophysics, and founding chief editor of Oxford Open Climate Change. He is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and of the American Geophysical Union. A Web of Science 2019 “Highly Cited Researcher,”
Rohling is also a former recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and an Australian Laureate Fellowship.
Source: Australian National University
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