Secrets of the Ice Ages: The Role of the Mediterranean Sea in Climate Change - Softcover

Johnson, Robert G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971563004 ISBN 13: 9780971563001

Publisher: Glenjay Pub, 2002

Synopsis

In easy historical steps, this book describes the efforts of scientists to understand why ice ages have occurred and the evidence for the role that the Mediterranean Sea plays in the grand sequence of climate changes over the last three million years. You will see how the orbital theory of ice ages advocated by Croll and Milankovitch passed through cycles of scientific acceptance and rejection leading to the modified version put forth in this book. This model of climate change is much more consistent with the geological records than earlier versions. The model predicts a major atmospheric circulation change in northeastern Canada, causing the onset of a new ice age in the next few decades when deepwater formation begins in Baffin Bay. This change is predicted due to the progressive loss of the Arctic Ocean pack ice cover (forty percent thinner now than thirty years ago) caused by global warming and the increasing saline outflow from the Mediterranean at Gibraltar.

About this title

About the Author:

Ph.D. in physics from Iowa State University. After a thirty four year career in industry, joined the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Minnesota as an adjunct professor in 1990. Engaged in paleoclimate research to the present time. Author or co-author of twelve journal publications on the topic of ice age climate change, beginning in 1976.

Review:

...excellent writing and reads like a murder mystery. I'm always in suspense for the next clue to pop up... -- D. Vandervelde, prepublication draft

...kept me riveted up to the end, and I have a much greater grasp of the issues of climate change... -- B.R. Gulliver, prepublicaton draft

About this edition

• Publisher: Glenjay Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0971563004
• ISBN 13: 9780971563001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 257