The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth’s Climate - Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams
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Climate change is a major topic of concern today and will be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level continue to take place. But as Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams reveal in The Goldilocks Planet, the climatic changes we are experiencing today hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.
Indeed, the vast history that the authors relate here is dramatic and often abrupt — with massive changes in global and regional climate, from bitterly cold to sweltering hot, from arid to humid. They introduce us to the Cryogenian period, the days of Snowball Earth seven hundred million years ago, when ice spread to cover the world, then melted abruptly amid such dramatic climatic turbulence that hurricanes raged across the Earth. We read about the Carboniferous, with tropical jungles at the equator (where Pennsylvania is now) and the Cretaceous Period, when the polar regions saw not ice but dense conifer forests of cypress and redwood, with gingkos and ferns.
The authors also show how this history can be read from clues preserved in the Earth’s strata. The evidence is abundant, though always incomplete — and often baffling, puzzling, infuriating, tantalizing, seemingly contradictory. Geologists, though, are becoming ever more ingenious at deciphering this evidence, and the story of the Earth’s climate is now being reconstructed in ever-greater detail — maybe even providing us with clues to the future of contemporary climate change.
And through all of this, the authors conclude, the Earth has remained perfectly habitable — in stark contrast to its planetary neighbors. Not too hot, not too cold; not too dry, not too wet — “the Goldilocks planet.”
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| 00. Prologue.mp3 8.39 MBs | |
| 01. Primordial climate.mp3 26.54 MBs | |
| 02. Snowball Earth.mp3 42.17 MBs | |
| 03. Between greenhouse and icehouse.mp3 41.28 MBs | |
| 04. The last long greenhouse.mp3 30.69 MBs | |
| 05. An ice age begins.mp3 33.71 MBs | |
| 06. Last gasp of a warm Earth.mp3 28.71 MBs | |
| 07. Into the icehouse.mp3 14.57 MBs | |
| 08. The glacial world.mp3 42.26 MBs | |
| 09. The last ten thousand years.mp3 42.66 MBs | |
| 10. The Anthropocene begins.mp3 54.12 MBs | |
| The Goldilocks Planet.jpg 22.62 KBs | |
| The Goldilocks Planet.txt 1.85 KBs | |
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
July 22nd, 2016
While KAT may be dead or comatose, Dr. Soc on the other hand, is unmistakably alive and kicking.
Long may you live sir.
July 22nd, 2016
many many thanks!!
July 22nd, 2016
I’m not Dr. Soc. She or he is a completely different uploader. Hopefully they will resurface somewhere soon. :)
July 22nd, 2016
“I’m not Dr. Soc.”
You’re not? Ok, my apologies. I thought you were since I saw so many uploads in common.
Anyway I’m sorry and thanks.
July 22nd, 2016
Sometimes Dr. Soc uploads a title before I get around to it, so instead of duplicating I will just repost their torrent to keep all the seeders in one large pool instead of dividing them.
April 3rd, 2023
Is this book dismissive of the damage of climate change? When I read “The Goldilocks Planet, the climatic changes we are experiencing today hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.” It seems like it might be. After all the fact that climate change has not killed off all life on earth, is not particularly relevant for what we are relay interested in: how humans will adapt to however bad we make the current climate change.
I think the climate changes of the last 4.5 Billion years is far less important than the changes of the last ten or twelve thousand years, the time since the start of agriculture.
When we talk about the dangers of climate change, we’re really talking about the danger to human civilisation.
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