The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Glikson, Andrew Yoram (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 13
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Physical geography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Ecology.; Earth Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.

This book presents projections and blueprints of the future geologic period, climate and biosphere, based on our current understanding of the Earth’s history and recent developments in the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. By the second decade of the 21st century it has become clear that, rather t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: The Demise of the Holocene Biosphere
• 1. Pandora’s Box
• 2. The Lungs of the Earth
• 3. Paradise Lost
• Part II: The Breach in Earth’s Radiation shield
• 4. Ionizing radiation and the biosphere
• 5. Late Anthropocene nuclear tests and wars
• 6. Late Anthropocene Radioactive Mausoleums
• Part III: The Event Horizon
• 7. Nuclear Winter
• 8. The Rising Oceans
• Part IV: A Republic of insects and grasses
• 9. Lessons from the Miocene and Pliocene
• 10. Ionizing radiation effects on plants and organisms
• 11. Arthropod civilizations
• Part V: Homo Prometheus
• Part VI. Darwinian Evolution, Intelligent Purpose and Mass Extinctions of Species
• 12. Darwinian evolution
• 13. Biological intelligence
• 14. The Origin of intelligence
• Epilogue.