The Two-Mile Time Machine
Book description
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the…
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1 author picked The Two-Mile Time Machine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you want to understand ice cores, this is your book. As a climate scientist, Alley taught me so much with this expert, clear-eyed but humble overview of ice core collection and analysis. I loved reading about GISP2, one of two Greenland ice cores that brought up rock and soil from below the ice.
I found this book powerful because the author was there when drillers extracted the core–he lived ice coring, and that made this a special read.
From Paul's list on Greenland and other Arctic destinations.
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