1986, ISBN: 9780819151056

Hardcover, Science & Technology, This rare classic, mint, unread, REVISED EDITION, HARDBACK, University Press of America, 1986, has a black cloth cover with gilt lettering to the front co… Mehr…

Hardcover, Science & Technology, This rare classic, mint, unread, REVISED EDITION, HARDBACK, University Press of America, 1986, has a black cloth cover with gilt lettering to the front cover and the spine. The book size is 6" w x 9.25" h with a bibliography, notes and 76 pristine acid-free pages. ISBN 081915105X. "Not long after the Lord had gathered the waters in one place, and had caused dry land to appear, that is to say not long after, if measured by the pages of Genesis....Noah was forced to take to his ark because new floods covered all the earth. Then came a time when Moses, searching for a land where milk and honey still flowed, had to lead his flock across what we now know were man-made deserts. There was also a Tower of Babel, where men spoke in many tongues, without understanding, and heeding no message. All this could only have happened in what was an infinitesimal fraction of the time that life has existed on this globe of ours, and in the course of which the surface of the earth has altered time and again out of all recognition. The shapes of continents and oceans have been continually changing; mountain ranges have thrust to the skies and then disappeared; and ice has covered the land. Relatively speaking it was not long before man as we know him emerged, at most a million out of more than four billion years since there was living matter, that the Bering Straits formed to separate the eastern tip of the Eurasiatic continent from America, and the Mediterranean to separate Europe from Africa. Only 5, 000 years ago, the Straits of Dover, which now separate us from France, was dry land. We may have a sense of the physical forces that have been at work, but we certainly do not wind the clock which triggers major changes in geography and in climate. All we know is that these forces are still there; that our earth is still changing; that the axis on which the globe spins every twenty-four hours is not immutably stable; that the orbit in which we move annually round the sun is not constant; that the sun from which the earth derives its energy is itself is subject to change; that the climate we know-, he winds, the rains, the seasons, is also changing from year to year. In his brilliant short book, and with the clarity that marks the informed professional diplomat, Crispin Tickell sets our species, Homo sapiens, in the dimension of geological time. Those who have not been too bemused by science fiction should read and ponder. The first half of our century probably enjoyed a warmer climate than did any corresponding period in the past thousand years. In the 17th century, a drop in average temperature of only 1degC brought about a "'little ice-age." A shift of a few degrees upwards could one day lead to the melting of the polar ice caps and the inundation of vast areas; one downwards to another age in which the land on which we live would be buried under hundreds of feet of ice. If all this is something which is hard to comprehend, we should at least remind ourselves that in recent years many regions of the globe have suffered acute droughts, tornadoes and floods, and that many countries have suffered ruinous crop failures. We should also recognize that in his multiplying millions, man, and not "nature" on its own, is now affecting his physical environment in unpredictable ways. The world's climate seems to be moving into a phase of rapid change......" ( Lord Zuckermann, Preface ) , USA, [PU: University Press of America]<

ISBN: 9780819151056

*Climatic Change and World Affairs Revised Edition* - Rev / gebundene Ausgabe für 79.49 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geowissenschaft Medien > Bücher nein Buch (gebunden) Büc… Mehr…

*Climatic Change and World Affairs Revised Edition* - Rev / gebundene Ausgabe für 79.49 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geowissenschaft Medien > Bücher nein Buch (gebunden) Bücher > Wissenschaft > Geowissenschaft, UNIV PR OF AMER<

1986, ISBN: 9780819151056

Buch, Hardcover, Revised Edition, Co-published with the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. [PU: University Press of America], Seiten: 92, University Press of America,… Mehr…

Buch, Hardcover, Revised Edition, Co-published with the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. [PU: University Press of America], Seiten: 92, University Press of America, 1986<