Earth's climate : past and future
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Earth's climate : past and future
W.H. Freeman, 2000, c2001
- : pbk.
Available at 23 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Earth's Climate: Past and Future" works as either a nonmajors introduction to Earth system science or climate change, or as a majors/graduate-level overview of the processes and techniques in climate science. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective by a researcher/instructor in the field, the text summarizes the major lessons to be learned from 550 million years of climate changes, as a way of evaluating the climatological impact on and by humans in this century. The book also looks ahead to possible effects during the next several centuries of fossil fuel use.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Framework of Climate Science
- Overview of Climate Science
- Earth's Climate System Today
- Climatic Archives, Data and Models
- Part II: Tectonic-Scale Climate Change
- CO2 and Long-Term Climate
- Plate Tectonics and Climate
- Greenhouse Earth
- Back into the Icehouse
- Part III: Orbital-Scale Climate Change
- Astronomical Control of Insolation
- Insolation Control of Monsoons
- Insolation Control of Ice Sheets
- Orbital-Scale Changes in CO2 and Methane
- Orbital-Scale Interactions in the Climate System
- Part IV: Deglacial and Millennial Climate Change
- The Last Glacial Maximum
- From the Last Deglaciation to the Present
- Millennial Climatic Oscillations
- Part V: Historical and Future Climate Change
- Historical Changes in Climate
- Humans and Climate Change
- Twentieth-Century Climate: The Greenhouse Debate
- Climate Change in the Next 100 to 1000 Years
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