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Автор: William James Burroughs
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0521820847
Количество страниц: 331
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 7 Мб
Каталожный номер: 60050
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When I wrote the preface to the first edition of this book over 10 years ago, I noted that the history of meteorology was littered with whitened bones of claims to have demonstrated the existence of reliable cycles in theweather. These failures had led many to conclude that the search for cycles is a pointless exercise. Not much has changed over the intervening years, but the pace of effort to provide better answers about the periodic behaviour of the climate has quickened. The reasons for what might be regarded a Sisyphean task are not hard to find. Now more than ever, we need to understand why the climate changes and to what extent human activities are producing effects which are comparable to or exceed the natural variability of the global climate.
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