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Ice Age Paperback – April 28, 2015

by John Gribbin (Author), Mary Gribbin (Author)
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John and Mary Gribbin tell the remarkable story of how we came to understand the phenomenon of Ice Ages. They focus on the key personalities obsessed with the quest for answers to tantalizing questions.How frequently do Ice Ages occur? How do astronomical rhythms affect the Earth's climate? Have there always been two polar ice caps? What does the future have in store?With startling new material on how the last major Ice Epoch could have hastened human evolution, Ice Age explains why and how we learned the Earth was once covered in ice—and how that made us human."Best work of science exposition and history that I've read in many years!"—Charles Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 28, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 122 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1511926422
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1511926423
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.31 x 8 inches
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Mel Cone
5.0 out of 5 stars Ice Age
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2021
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Great information.
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Pablo Diaz de Brito
4.0 out of 5 stars Astronomical cycles, climate and human evolution
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2019
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a short, introductory text, very well done. It allows us to understand the nexus between evolution and climate change in the Quaternary.
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Danioton
5.0 out of 5 stars Key Concepts on Why Ice Ages Come and Go
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2021
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The authors make it clear up front that they are not discussing Climate Change and related issues, and instead are focusing on the causal factors behind why full blown Ice Ages come and go. These factors include Precession (direction the Earth’s axis points rotates over time), Axial tilt (changes from its current 23.5 degrees over time), Eccentricity (how circular vs elliptical Earth’s orbit is), Sun’s cycles, and other unpredictables such as volcanic eruptions. Way too many people have obsessed on CO2 as the single factor as if control of that factor could give us control over climate. We have no control over the Sun, Precession, and Axial tilt, Eccentricity, and volcanic eruptions. Appreciating these other factors will leave the reader with a wiser, broader perspective on the climate issue and whether it is possible to 'control' climate, because just levering CO2 is unlikely to prevent shifts in climate which have been taking place long before we arrived and will likely continue long after we've left the scene.
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Mark Sutter
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Read
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2018
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If you'd like a cogent argument to use against those preaching global warming this might be the book for you. Two passages stood out:

1. It is concluded that changes in the Earth's orbital geometry are the fundamental cause of Quaternary ice ages. A model of future climate based on the observed orbital-climate relationships... predicts that the long term-trend over the next several thousand years is towards extensive northern-hemisphere glaciation.

2. The fact that sea level had been higher at certain times in the past than it is today had long been known -- on his voyage round the world aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin, who was a geologist before he made a name as a naturalist, was one of several such pioneers who noticed raised beaches, several metres above the present day sea level, in different parts of the world.
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Roy E. Oetting
3.0 out of 5 stars It was a fun read. The history of climatology as it relates ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2018
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It was a fun read. The history of climatology as it relates to ice ages. I'd give it a higher rating if John and Mary didn't give a tip of the hat to anthropogenic warming but instead had covered solar cycles and how they have affected the climate through the Holocene.
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Jakke Naulapää
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice alternative to an Ice Age textbook
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2014
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I'm a PhD student working on an Ice Age related thesis, which means that my reading consists almost entirely of scientific articles and textbooks. This book was a refreshing anomaly. It provided an evening with a dramatic arch and some good background information as to how we know what we know. It was, however, a bit too short: to my disappointment it did not say anything about Younger Dryas, which - apart from the fact that it is not explicable by Milankovitch cycles - is rather a crucial stage within the development of our own species.
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Thomas Berryman
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating.
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2019
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The history of an idea and how it was developed can as every bit interesting as the idea itself can be.
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Tony Hastings
5.0 out of 5 stars Climate change
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2022
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Great book to understand climate change
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Eni
1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely poor printing quality
Reviewed in Germany on January 22, 2022
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Paying 13 eur for this quality is not at all reasonable and to add here that this was a 90 pages book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely poor printing quality
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Paying 13 eur for this quality is not at all reasonable and to add here that this was a 90 pages book.
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Arun Krishnan
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting
Reviewed in India on November 16, 2018
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The ice ages are explained with lucid detail. The connection of ice ages with human evolution makes it a compelling read.
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Christopher Mathews
5.0 out of 5 stars Our place in the world
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2017
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A carefully researched and considered briefing on how Earth's orbit around the Sun has been found to give rise to periodic Inter-glacials between prolonged Ice Ages. Important, trustworthy background for anyone concerned about global warming, whether or not you believe in the Anthropocene (man-made epoch).
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Parth
4.0 out of 5 stars Why Ice Ages occur and recede. How do we know that.
Reviewed in India on November 29, 2020
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The book reveals how various astronomical factors (like minor changes in Earth’s orbit around the Sun and its tilt) and changing geography (changes in shapes & locations of continents and resultant changes in ocean currents) conspire to begin and end ice ages. The book also gives a fair bit of idea about various technologies to convey how we know what we know.

The book is fascinating for the facts it reveals, concepts it teaches and makes us realise that we are living in a very special time-window in the Earth’s very long history. On the negative side, I think, the writing style could be more fluid and the details about the lives and characters of scientists could be avoided, although it is already a small book with 100-odd pages.
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Dave M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2020
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Difficult scientific subject well related for the layman.
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