An Earth Science Dictionary That'll Help You Understand the Climate Crisis the First Time You Read It
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Book Introduction
If you want to understand the nature of the climate crisis and environmental problems, the first thing you need to do is understand the structure of the Earth.
Because the Earth's internal structures, such as the core and mantle, and large systems, such as rocks, soil, rivers, oceans, atmosphere, and magnetic field, are the source of all life on Earth.
The moment you understand the true nature of the Earth, you will feel gratitude for the precious things that silently protect you, and the desire to step forward and protect them will naturally sprout within you.
Because the Earth's internal structures, such as the core and mantle, and large systems, such as rocks, soil, rivers, oceans, atmosphere, and magnetic field, are the source of all life on Earth.
The moment you understand the true nature of the Earth, you will feel gratitude for the precious things that silently protect you, and the desire to step forward and protect them will naturally sprout within you.
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index
Chapter 1: The Ocean | The Peaceful Sea's Counterattack
The sea flows, and so does the trash.
Tears of the Polar Regions, Earth's Crisis
What Makes Up Seawater: Happy or Fearful
Down under the sea
Various submarine topography
The sea, the origin and foundation of life
The terrifying seawater that swamps the coast, a tsunami
What if biodegradable plastics became commercially available?
Chapter 2: Waiting | To Reclaim Blue Skies and Clean Air
Guests from the West
The atmosphere surrounding the Earth and the ozone layer
I want to breathe clean air
Climate Change Diagnosed by Science
A warm Earth, a hotter Earth, a hotter Earth
Changeable weather, dangerous weather
Climate change on the dinner table
Should we establish measures to reduce fine dust?
Chapter 3: Geology | The Underground: A Silent Battlefield
The reasonable value of stones
The Past, Present, and Future of Fossil Fuels
Soil, water, and garbage underground
Dynamic Earth
Collapsing mountains, collapsing land
Disappearing forests, expanding deserts
Something that is absolutely necessary but no one wants
Chapter 4: The Universe | The Earth's Outer Space is Changing, Too
Is there trash in space?
The magnetic field that protects us
I want to see the twinkling stars
What the sun gives us
What is Kessler Syndrome?
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The sea flows, and so does the trash.
Tears of the Polar Regions, Earth's Crisis
What Makes Up Seawater: Happy or Fearful
Down under the sea
Various submarine topography
The sea, the origin and foundation of life
The terrifying seawater that swamps the coast, a tsunami
What if biodegradable plastics became commercially available?
Chapter 2: Waiting | To Reclaim Blue Skies and Clean Air
Guests from the West
The atmosphere surrounding the Earth and the ozone layer
I want to breathe clean air
Climate Change Diagnosed by Science
A warm Earth, a hotter Earth, a hotter Earth
Changeable weather, dangerous weather
Climate change on the dinner table
Should we establish measures to reduce fine dust?
Chapter 3: Geology | The Underground: A Silent Battlefield
The reasonable value of stones
The Past, Present, and Future of Fossil Fuels
Soil, water, and garbage underground
Dynamic Earth
Collapsing mountains, collapsing land
Disappearing forests, expanding deserts
Something that is absolutely necessary but no one wants
Chapter 4: The Universe | The Earth's Outer Space is Changing, Too
Is there trash in space?
The magnetic field that protects us
I want to see the twinkling stars
What the sun gives us
What is Kessler Syndrome?
Search
Photo details source
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Into the book
The sea and its currents don't just offer us romance and fun.
It's not just toys and letters in bottles that float around the ocean.
Garbage discarded from land or ships also floats in the sea.
These pieces of trash are gathering in the relatively weak central part of the gyre structure, creating a garbage island.
There is a very large garbage patch, especially in the center of the North Pacific Gyre.
The North Pacific Gyre is a large gyre in which the California Current, North Equatorial Current, Kuroshio Current, and North Pacific Current rotate clockwise.
The entire gyre covers an area of about 20 million square kilometers.
However, because the center of this vortex is stable and quiet, the garbage that gathers here cannot escape to other places and becomes trapped.
As of 2018, the area of the garbage island is said to be approximately 1.55 million square kilometers, which is about seven times the area of the Korean Peninsula.
It's a size that's hard to even imagine.
---p.19
The solar energy entering the Earth and the Earth's rotation cause massive atmospheric currents to form.
This is called 'atmospheric circulation'.
The atmospheric circulation is divided into three patterns depending on latitude: low latitude (equator to 30°), mid latitude (30° to 60°), and high latitude (60° to the poles), and each pattern is generally characterized by trade winds, westerlies, and easterlies.
So, east winds are dominant in low and high latitudes, and westerly winds are dominant in mid latitudes.
Because our country is located in the mid-latitudes, the overall atmospheric flow above it appears to be westerly winds.
Of course, the local wind direction changes and becomes more complex depending on the specific terrain, time, etc., but the average flow is always a westerly wind.
Because of this, yellow dust, fine dust, and various other weather phenomena mostly originate from the west, so you can predict the weather by looking at the western sky.
---p.83
Synthetic materials like plastics found in waste take hundreds of years to decompose in the ground.
Heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium also do not decompose easily and remain in the soil for a long time.
Recently, there have even been claims that landfills, which are the result of human activity, should be viewed as a single geological layer.
Traces of human-made artifacts left underground are called "technofossils," and Anthropocene researchers are actually drilling into landfills to analyze them.
---p.155
The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that there are approximately 34,000 pieces of space debris larger than 10 cm that can be tracked from the ground, and a whopping 128 million pieces smaller than 1 mm.
Even though a piece of space debris is small, it moves at such a high speed that if it collides with something, it can cause significant impact and damage.
Additionally, if space debris in low orbit falls due to Earth's gravity, it could cause significant damage to the ground.
The vicious cycle of space debris left behind in orbit colliding with each other and creating more debris is also called the Kessler Syndrome.
When the amount of space debris accumulated in a particular orbit exceeds a critical point, a chain of collisions will continue to occur even if no new objects are launched into that orbit, causing the space debris to continue to increase.
It's not just toys and letters in bottles that float around the ocean.
Garbage discarded from land or ships also floats in the sea.
These pieces of trash are gathering in the relatively weak central part of the gyre structure, creating a garbage island.
There is a very large garbage patch, especially in the center of the North Pacific Gyre.
The North Pacific Gyre is a large gyre in which the California Current, North Equatorial Current, Kuroshio Current, and North Pacific Current rotate clockwise.
The entire gyre covers an area of about 20 million square kilometers.
However, because the center of this vortex is stable and quiet, the garbage that gathers here cannot escape to other places and becomes trapped.
As of 2018, the area of the garbage island is said to be approximately 1.55 million square kilometers, which is about seven times the area of the Korean Peninsula.
It's a size that's hard to even imagine.
---p.19
The solar energy entering the Earth and the Earth's rotation cause massive atmospheric currents to form.
This is called 'atmospheric circulation'.
The atmospheric circulation is divided into three patterns depending on latitude: low latitude (equator to 30°), mid latitude (30° to 60°), and high latitude (60° to the poles), and each pattern is generally characterized by trade winds, westerlies, and easterlies.
So, east winds are dominant in low and high latitudes, and westerly winds are dominant in mid latitudes.
Because our country is located in the mid-latitudes, the overall atmospheric flow above it appears to be westerly winds.
Of course, the local wind direction changes and becomes more complex depending on the specific terrain, time, etc., but the average flow is always a westerly wind.
Because of this, yellow dust, fine dust, and various other weather phenomena mostly originate from the west, so you can predict the weather by looking at the western sky.
---p.83
Synthetic materials like plastics found in waste take hundreds of years to decompose in the ground.
Heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium also do not decompose easily and remain in the soil for a long time.
Recently, there have even been claims that landfills, which are the result of human activity, should be viewed as a single geological layer.
Traces of human-made artifacts left underground are called "technofossils," and Anthropocene researchers are actually drilling into landfills to analyze them.
---p.155
The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that there are approximately 34,000 pieces of space debris larger than 10 cm that can be tracked from the ground, and a whopping 128 million pieces smaller than 1 mm.
Even though a piece of space debris is small, it moves at such a high speed that if it collides with something, it can cause significant impact and damage.
Additionally, if space debris in low orbit falls due to Earth's gravity, it could cause significant damage to the ground.
The vicious cycle of space debris left behind in orbit colliding with each other and creating more debris is also called the Kessler Syndrome.
When the amount of space debris accumulated in a particular orbit exceeds a critical point, a chain of collisions will continue to occur even if no new objects are launched into that orbit, causing the space debris to continue to increase.
---p.192
Publisher's Review
If you know the structure, you can see the essence of the crisis!
A scientific story of the land, sea, sky, and space that helps us understand our suffering planet.
Why should we know about the Earth? You might think it's enough to simply know that Earth is "the place where we live."
But the Earth we know today is completely different from the Earth we knew.
The quickest way to experience this fact is through climate change and the accompanying weather anomalies.
Despite belated efforts, accelerating global warming, unprecedentedly severe heat waves and cold spells, unseasonable heavy snow and rain, and even disasters such as earthquakes and sinkholes occurring in unexpected places are all deeply related to changes in the Earth.
When a person is diagnosed with a serious illness such as cancer or diabetes, there are no symptoms in the early stages, but symptoms only appear when the disease has already reached a terminal stage and has significantly worsened.
The Earth is just like the human body.
If you're already experiencing the various abnormal phenomena on Earth, you can no longer delay understanding the vast system that is Earth and identifying the causes of the crisis.
As we learn about the structure and workings of the Earth, we are struck by the mystery of how intricately the Earth is constructed, and we are also struck by how quickly humans are destroying this wondrous planet.
Looking at the Earth in more detail than usual and having a desire to understand it more deeply is the first step toward solving the current crisis facing the Earth.
By learning about the structure and systems of the Earth, which we have taken for granted and are so familiar with, we will be able to properly confront numerous climate crises and environmental issues, and develop a sense of responsibility and consideration for countless lives.
Climate change, extreme weather events, environmental pollution, ecosystems, resources and energy, the Anthropocene
The changes and crises on Earth caused by humans are easily understood at a glance!
Have you ever heard of the Anthropocene? The term originated from the argument that the impact of human activity on the current geological epoch, the Holocene, is so profound that it should be separated into a separate epoch.
Although the term Anthropocene was ultimately rejected by the International Union of Geologists in 2024 after six weeks of discussion, the repercussions of the term were enormous.
If natural changes have determined the times until now, the Anthropocene is a symbol that since the Industrial Revolution in the 1950s, humans, not nature, have been leading the fate of the Earth.
In fact, the extinction of countless species caused by humans, rapid global warming, various anthropogenic chemicals, and astronomical amounts of plastic and waste are causing extreme changes across the globe.
Strata created by the steady accumulation of sediment are now filled with waste, and global warming caused by excessive carbon emissions is threatening the Earth's most fundamental functions: atmospheric circulation and the ocean conveyor belt.
Ecosystems and underground resources that have been built over millions of years are also rapidly disappearing.
Climate change and extreme weather events are the problems that have surfaced from the surface.
The climate crisis is not just about the fact that the climate is changing.
The real problem we need to solve is restoring the structure and functioning of the Earth to its original state after the cataclysmic changes hidden behind it.
To return the Earth to its normal orbit, we need to view the entire Earth as a single system and understand the system's operating principles and relationships.
Only by understanding earth science can we properly understand the climate crisis and find the right solutions.
Earth science knowledge essential to protecting the future of the Earth
The Climate Crisis: The Nature and Solutions of Its Impact, as Seen Through the Eyes of an Environmental Scientist
The entire structure of the Earth is largely composed of five systems.
The hydrosphere is the water part, the atmosphere is the gas part, the geosphere is the land part, the biosphere is made up of various living organisms, and the cryosphere is made up of snow and ice.
It can be said that these each perform their own functions while interacting with each other to maintain the Earth.
If something goes wrong in one part of the Earth's system, unexpected consequences can occur in seemingly unrelated places, much like the butterfly effect.
That's why many scientists are seriously concerned about sea level rises of just a few millimeters and temperatures of less than 0.1 degrees Celsius.
For example, the problem of melting polar glaciers, which are part of the ice sheet, is not only a problem of rising sea levels and land submersion.
The pristine white ice prevents the Earth from absorbing too much solar energy, and the Arctic's permafrost traps methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, and unknown viruses.
Therefore, the melting of glaciers can be a serious problem that could lead to the extinction of life on Earth.
While the geoscience knowledge required to understand the climate crisis is vast and complex, understanding the core operating principles and structures of each system allows us to scientifically understand the causes of the problem.
Only by scientifically understanding the serious crisis the Earth is currently facing and considering solutions linked to science and technology can we protect our planet, our home.
A scientific story of the land, sea, sky, and space that helps us understand our suffering planet.
Why should we know about the Earth? You might think it's enough to simply know that Earth is "the place where we live."
But the Earth we know today is completely different from the Earth we knew.
The quickest way to experience this fact is through climate change and the accompanying weather anomalies.
Despite belated efforts, accelerating global warming, unprecedentedly severe heat waves and cold spells, unseasonable heavy snow and rain, and even disasters such as earthquakes and sinkholes occurring in unexpected places are all deeply related to changes in the Earth.
When a person is diagnosed with a serious illness such as cancer or diabetes, there are no symptoms in the early stages, but symptoms only appear when the disease has already reached a terminal stage and has significantly worsened.
The Earth is just like the human body.
If you're already experiencing the various abnormal phenomena on Earth, you can no longer delay understanding the vast system that is Earth and identifying the causes of the crisis.
As we learn about the structure and workings of the Earth, we are struck by the mystery of how intricately the Earth is constructed, and we are also struck by how quickly humans are destroying this wondrous planet.
Looking at the Earth in more detail than usual and having a desire to understand it more deeply is the first step toward solving the current crisis facing the Earth.
By learning about the structure and systems of the Earth, which we have taken for granted and are so familiar with, we will be able to properly confront numerous climate crises and environmental issues, and develop a sense of responsibility and consideration for countless lives.
Climate change, extreme weather events, environmental pollution, ecosystems, resources and energy, the Anthropocene
The changes and crises on Earth caused by humans are easily understood at a glance!
Have you ever heard of the Anthropocene? The term originated from the argument that the impact of human activity on the current geological epoch, the Holocene, is so profound that it should be separated into a separate epoch.
Although the term Anthropocene was ultimately rejected by the International Union of Geologists in 2024 after six weeks of discussion, the repercussions of the term were enormous.
If natural changes have determined the times until now, the Anthropocene is a symbol that since the Industrial Revolution in the 1950s, humans, not nature, have been leading the fate of the Earth.
In fact, the extinction of countless species caused by humans, rapid global warming, various anthropogenic chemicals, and astronomical amounts of plastic and waste are causing extreme changes across the globe.
Strata created by the steady accumulation of sediment are now filled with waste, and global warming caused by excessive carbon emissions is threatening the Earth's most fundamental functions: atmospheric circulation and the ocean conveyor belt.
Ecosystems and underground resources that have been built over millions of years are also rapidly disappearing.
Climate change and extreme weather events are the problems that have surfaced from the surface.
The climate crisis is not just about the fact that the climate is changing.
The real problem we need to solve is restoring the structure and functioning of the Earth to its original state after the cataclysmic changes hidden behind it.
To return the Earth to its normal orbit, we need to view the entire Earth as a single system and understand the system's operating principles and relationships.
Only by understanding earth science can we properly understand the climate crisis and find the right solutions.
Earth science knowledge essential to protecting the future of the Earth
The Climate Crisis: The Nature and Solutions of Its Impact, as Seen Through the Eyes of an Environmental Scientist
The entire structure of the Earth is largely composed of five systems.
The hydrosphere is the water part, the atmosphere is the gas part, the geosphere is the land part, the biosphere is made up of various living organisms, and the cryosphere is made up of snow and ice.
It can be said that these each perform their own functions while interacting with each other to maintain the Earth.
If something goes wrong in one part of the Earth's system, unexpected consequences can occur in seemingly unrelated places, much like the butterfly effect.
That's why many scientists are seriously concerned about sea level rises of just a few millimeters and temperatures of less than 0.1 degrees Celsius.
For example, the problem of melting polar glaciers, which are part of the ice sheet, is not only a problem of rising sea levels and land submersion.
The pristine white ice prevents the Earth from absorbing too much solar energy, and the Arctic's permafrost traps methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, and unknown viruses.
Therefore, the melting of glaciers can be a serious problem that could lead to the extinction of life on Earth.
While the geoscience knowledge required to understand the climate crisis is vast and complex, understanding the core operating principles and structures of each system allows us to scientifically understand the causes of the problem.
Only by scientifically understanding the serious crisis the Earth is currently facing and considering solutions linked to science and technology can we protect our planet, our home.
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- Date of issue: June 5, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 232 pages | 395g | 148*210*13mm
- ISBN13: 9788964947500
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