BOOKS - POPULAR SCIENCE - The Icy Planet Saving Earth's Refrigerator
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The Icy Planet Saving Earth's Refrigerator
Author: Colin Summerhayes
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 473
Format: PDF
File size: 37,0 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 473
Format: PDF
File size: 37,0 MB
Language: ENG
For most people, planet Earth's icy parts remain out of sight and out of mind. Yet it is the melting of ice that will both raise sea level and warm the climate further by reducing the white surfaces that reflect solar energy back into space. In effect, our icy places act as the world's refrigerator, helping to keep our climate relatively cool. The Icy Planet lays out carbon dioxide's role as the control knob of our climate over the past 1000 million years, then explores what is happening to ice and snow in Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains.