Journey Into Climate
Paul Andrew Maywewski
Michael Cope Morrison
The adventure and excitement behind climate research in the polar regions and the world�s high mountains.
In this collection of adventure stories and restored period photos, authors Paul Andrew Mayewski and Michael Cope Morrison tell their personal experiences going to some of the Earth�s most remote and challenging places, the
scientific discoveries they made there, and the journey that they, and the scientific community, made from a "gradualist" viewpoint - thinking that humanity
was an inconsequential observer in a slowly
changing climate - to the realization that we are deeply
and irrevocably involved in the short- and long-term fate
of a temperamental climate capable of dramatic changes
in a matter of only a few years. They also tell of discovering the worldwide reach of industrial emissions; their effects on climate, Civilization, ecosystems, and our individual quality of life; the remarkable success of the Clean Air Act and the
Montreal Protocols; and how some of the effects can clear up in weeks or months - and others only over centuries.
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