Mayewski, Paul Andrews and Frank White. 2002. Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change. University Press of New England, Hanover, NH. pp 233. ISBN-1-58465-061-3. $19.95 Paperback

摘要

The Ice Chronicles are the stories told by the vast annual layers of ice and snow in glaciers and continental ice sheets scattered around our globe, the stories of the climates this world has experienced through the past 110,000 years. [This record is now traced back through the past 740,000 years in the ice cores from Dome C, Antarctica (Nature: 429, 623-628).] Understanding these chronicles gives us a glimpse into how climate has operated in the past and helps us understand its current trends and how we are influencing these trends.