Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth

by Thomas Levenson

Book Overview

Attenborough takes the reader around the world into jungles; to Australia ; to remote mountains in Japan and further. This book is based on the BBC television series. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060160632
• ISBN13: 9780060160630
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 242 Pages

Customer Reviews

Ice Time by Levenson

Excellent, thought-provoking material for those who love to think outside the box. Like the 1st reviewer, I found the 1st half more stimulating and refreshing, but I haven't let my politics interfere with my enjoyment of the 2nd half, and I think maybe she did. Excellent history of the growth of recognition of how the weather is a product of a system that includes air water earth life sun etc, and the clumsy attempts of men of vision to construct mathematical CLIMATE (not weather) models with the help of computers and satellites and all the scientific disciplines talking to each other. The last half of the book describes ways human activity may repeat may be affecting climate, in sobering ways.