The Goldilocks Planet: The Four Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate

by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams

Book Overview

Climate change is a major topic of concern today and will be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level continue to take place. But as Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams reveal in The Goldilocks Planet, the climatic changes we are experiencing today hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.

Indeed, the vast history that the authors relate here is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199593574
• ISBN13: 9780199593576
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"