The Book Prize Index

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

Richard B. Alley

"Richard Alley tells the history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years

ScienceScience · medium confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceGoogle Books: Nature -> Nature & EnvironmentKeyword Classifier: Nature & Environment -> Nature & EnvironmentClimate, Weather & DisasterScience & DiscoveryEnvironment, Conservation & PollutionIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards: Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science2001WinnerOfficial source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Greenland78%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Global climate changes include abrupt shifts that can occur over only a few years, as shown by annual measurements in Greenland ice cores.

    Model confidence 55%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    62 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.