ISBN:
9780197559918
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 162 pages)
,
Illustrations.
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
304.25
Keywords:
Climatic changes
;
Climatic changes History
;
Climatic changes Effect of human beings on
;
Climatology Forecasting
Abstract:
In 2015, annual average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels surpassed a level of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in three million years. This has caused widespread concern among climate scientists, and not least among those that work on natural climate variability in prehistoric times, before humans. These people are known as 'past climate' or palaeoclimate researchers, and author Eelco J. Rohling is one of them. 'The Climate Question' offers a background to these concerns in straightforward terms, with examples, and is motivated by Rohling's personal experience in being intensely quizzed about whether modern change is not all just part of a natural cycle, whether nature will not simply resolve the issue for us, or whether it won't be just up to some novel engineering to settle things quickly.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2019
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190910877.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190910877.001.0001
