The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth: 13 (Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 13) - Image 1

£91.82

Springer The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth: 13 (Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 13)

Name: The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth: 13 (Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 13)
Brand: Springer
Price: 88.62 GBP
Availability: InStock

Biological Science

Price History & Forecast

Last 81 days • 81 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 81 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £89 (54 days, 66.7%)

Price range: £86 - £92

Price levels: 3 different prices over 81 days

Description

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 than channel its efforts into protecting its planetary biosphere and living species, Homo sapiens continues to sink its remaining resources into weapons, including nuclear missiles – thus increasing the risk of intentional or accidental spread of radioactive nuclides on land, oceans and atmosphere. With time, possibility becomes probability, and probability becomes certainty ‒ heralding a transition from the Anthropocene to a new geological period, named here as Plutocene after the element Plutonium. During the Plutocene the biosphere is dominated by elevated temperatures, analogous to the Pliocene (2.6 – 5.3 Ma ago) or the Miocene (5.3 - 23 Ma ago) when mean global temperatures were 2 to 4 degrees Celsius warmer and sea levels 20 to 40 meters higher than pre-industrial levels. High levels of radioactivity will persist for at least 20,000 years and acid oceans will severely limit biological activity to the hardiest species. Atmospheric CO2 higher than 500 ppm with residence time on the order of thousands of years will delay the subsequent glacial cycle. These factors restrict comparisons of the Plutocene with biosphere conditions during the Miocene and Pliocene periods, partly because the flora and fauna evolved more gradually during these periods, unlike the abrupt climate shift of state during the second half of the 20th century and first part of the 21st century. Following a long lull in biological activity dominated by radiation-resistant organisms, especially Arthropods, a resumption of glacial cycles and decline in radioactivity will lead to the re-emergence of descendants of burrowing mammals and other genera. Depending on the intensity of radioactive pollution, hunter-gatherer humans may survive in northern latitudes, relatively cold high-altitude mountain valleys and elevated volcanic islands. In some areas subsistence farming may be possible. A new cycle will commence.

Product Specifications

Brand: Springer
Format: paperback
ASIN: 3319861107
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Biological Sciences > Biological Science
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 August 2018
Listed Since: 15 August 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Springer The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth: 13 (Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 13)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth: 13 (Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 13)

Global Change in the Holocene

Climate Changes in the Holocene:: Impacts and Human Adaptation

Paleoclimatology: From Snowball Earth to the Anthropocene

The Pleistocene: Geography, Geology, and Fauna (Origin Evolution and Geologica) (Origin, Evolution and Geological History of Earth)

Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene (Transnational Law and Governance)

The Earth’s Human Carrying Capacity: Limitations Assessed, Solutions Proposed

Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

Climate of the Past, Present and Future: A scientific debate, 2nd ed.

Handbook of Human and Planetary Health (Climate Change Management)

Routledge - The Anthropocene in Global Media Book

Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans between Heritage and Future

The Earth’s Human Carrying Capacity: Limitations Assessed, Solutions Proposed

Climate Change in the Anthropocene

Springer Global Energetics of the Atmosphere Textbook

Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth (Springer Praxis Books)

Routledge The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis

Greenhouse Warming And Nuclear Hazards: A Series Of Essays And Research Papers

Paleoclimatology (Frontiers in Earth Sciences)

Reconstructing Earth's Climate History: Inquiry-Based Exercises for Lab and Class, 2nd Edition

The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch (Routledge Environmental Humanities)

Holocene Extinctions

Paleoclimate: 10 (Princeton Primers in Climate)

The Future of the World's Climate