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The Trials of Gaia

Milestones in the Evolution of Earth with Reference to the Anthropocene

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  1. Andrew Yoram Glikson

    1. School of Biology Earth Environment Science (BEES), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  • Documents comparisons between current climate changes, historical and geological climate changes
  • Elaborates the relevance of James Loovelock's Gaia theory
  • Updates earlier accounts regarding extreme weather events and mass extinctions

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Living Planet

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    Pages 1-5

  3. The Dawn of Gaia

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 7-17

  4. The Early Earth Crust

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 19-26

  5. Early Life

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 27-36

  6. Ice Ages and Atmospheric Oxygenation

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 37-42

  7. The Ediacaran to Cambrian “Explosion” of Life

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 43-46

  8. Phanerozoic Mass Extinctions

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 47-57

  9. The Holocene

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 59-65

  10. An Anthropogenic Catastrophe

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 67-81

  11. A Burning Planet

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 83-87

  12. Paleoclimate Implications

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 89-95

  13. Climate Zones Shifts, Ice Melt and Stadial Cooling

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 97-106

  14. Future Climate Projections

    • Andrew Yoram Glikson
    Pages 107-111

  15. The Nuclear Nightmare

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    Pages 113-127
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About this book

This books presents a documentation and resulting perspectives regarding James Lovelock's multidisciplinary evolution theory. It looks at past and current climate changes and their consequences, including detailed accounts of the global warming. The connection between climate trajectories and extreme weather events, including tropical and arctic fronts, cyclones, fire storms, tropical storms, acidification, tsunami, floods, sea level rise, are referred to in connection with recent developments. The book updates earlier accounts regarding extreme weather events and mass extinctions.

The book “The Trials of Gaia” is published in honour of the late Professor James Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022), the father of the Gaia theory.



Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Biology Earth Environment Science (BEES), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Andrew Yoram Glikson

About the author

Dr Andrew Yoram Glikson is an Earth and Paleo-climate Scientist, a Visiting Scientist at the University of New South Wales, earlier of Geoscience Australia, the Research School of Earth Science, the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University,  and a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute. He graduated from the Universities of Jerusalem and Western Australia, conducted extensive geological surveys in central and western Australia, studied the evolution of the early Earth crust in several continents, investigated the effects of asteroid and comet impacts on the Earth with reference to the mass extinction of species, and studied the inter-relationships between human evolution and the climate. He has an impact crater and an asteroid named after him by Eugene Shoemaker, late head of the United States Astrogeology Branch of the US Geological Survey.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Trials of Gaia

  • Book Subtitle: Milestones in the Evolution of Earth with Reference to the Anthropocene

  • Authors: Andrew Yoram Glikson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23709-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23708-9Published: 15 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23711-9Published: 16 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23709-6Published: 14 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 127

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Climate, general, Anthropology

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