Comments on: Book review – The Oceans: A Deep History

By: Book review – Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:05:19 +0000

[…] recent popular books such as tides, the origins of the ocean, or the interaction between oceans and past and future climate change are treated more briefly or not at […]

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By: Book review – On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:50:26 +0000

[…] detailed picture of Earth’s past climate. Tyrrell here considers evidence from stratigraphy, ocean chemistry and acidity, temperature, greenhouse gases, and erratic climatic episodes such as Snowball Earth and more […]

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By: Book review – The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:56:37 +0000

[…] mass extinctions, volcanism, ocean acidification, etc. It was instructive to return to my review of The Oceans, a book that covers the long history of ocean temperature, acidity, and oxygen content. It presents […]

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By: Book review – Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and other Planets | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:23:44 +0000

[…] I tucked in, it became clear that they go deeper than Eelco Rohling did in the previously reviewed The Oceans: A Deep History, a book that focused heavily on palaeoclimatology. Even though most of the action in Ocean Worlds […]

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By: Book review – Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:15:14 +0000

[…] and forming the banded iron formations that we mine to this day. Another side-effect was the Huronian glaciation which turned our planet into a “Snowball Earth”. There was the formation of the ozone […]

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By: Book review – Ocean Circulation in Three Dimensions | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 11 May 2020 09:45:05 +0000

[…] Klinger & Haine briefly explore the link between ocean circulation and the global climate, palaeoclimatology, and the possibility of abrupt climate […]

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By: Book review – Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:40:44 +0000

[…] solid between approximately 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago. (Actually, I did know this from reviewing The Oceans: A Deep History, but I had forgotten about […]

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Array — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:52:16 +0000

[…] solid between approximately 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago. (Actually, I did know this from reviewing The Oceans: A Deep History, but I had forgotten about […]

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By: Book review – The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:21:53 +0000

[…] The Deep is bang up-to-date on this front. There is the familiar spectre of overfishing: the rise of the industrial fishing complex, the harmful government subsidies, the collapse of fish populations, the destructive practice of trawling, the infuriating wastefulness of by-catches and simply catching more than the market can handle (see my reviews of All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing, Daniel Pauly’s Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries, and The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World, and references therein). But Rogers is equally at ease explaining the details behind ocean acidification, eutrophication with concomitant episodes of oxygen depletion and algal blooms (a topic I am intimately familiar with from my own studies), changing ocean temperatures and coral bleaching, and palaeoclimatological evidence of past changes (see also my review of The Oceans: A Deep History). […]

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By: Book review – The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 08:58:23 +0000

[…] Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions and The Oceans: A Deep History), the findings from palaeoclimatology leave little doubt as to what happens when you keep pumping […]

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