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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 193
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
In order to simulate the climate of an ice age, a two-level, quasi-geostrophic, spectral general circulation model for the northern hemisphere is developed.
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Occasional paper volume 15
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
Study to discover the Holocene displacements of the Canadian boreal forest tundra ecotone resulting from climatic changes.
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[2023]
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"Test your chops and discover if you have what it takes to survive at a time when Earth looked, well, a tad different in this ultimate survival guide to the prehistoric age. Find out how to make it through exploding volcanoes and mega monsoons--while dodging giant Permian bugs! See how to fend off an angry pterosaur and learn what to do if you're caught in a stampede of enormous titanosaurs. Discover what you could eat (spoiler alert: You better like...
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[2017]
Description
"As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future"--Publisher's website.
"A vivid tour of Earth's Big Five mass extinctions, the past worlds lost with each, and what they...
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2013.
Description
For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late Pleistocene and driving the beasts of the Ice Age toward extinction....
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Travel back in time and go face-to-face with the most ferocious animal giants of the Ice Age. Animals such as the saber-toothed cat, the short-faced bear, and the dire wolf. Brings these lethal creatures to life in a startling portrait of their wild existence and puzzling extinction in the ancient Americas. Learn how these remarkable creatures wielded power over the prehistoric kingdom's largest beasts and how they disappeared. Find out why their...
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2007.
Description
"Arctic ice is melting, sea levels are rising and glaciers are shrinking at alarming rates. The Earth is getting unmistakably warmer. But is this vast potentially catastrophic climate change the result of human behavior? Or is it simply the Earth's natural cycle of warming and cooling periods that have occurred since the planet formed? The History Channel offers an in-depth study of the science behind this controversial hot-button issue" --dvd container....
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