Earth's climate evolution / Colin P. Summerhayes.
Publication details: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.Description: xiv, 394 p. : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781118897393
- 551.60901 23 Su955
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| 551.609 W725 Deep-time perspectives on climate change | 551.60901 B811 Paleoclimatology : | 551.60901 C953 Tectonic boundary conditions for climate reconstructions | 551.60901 Su955 Earth's climate evolution / | 551.6213678 G977 Remote sensing geology/ | 551.63 B134 Images in weather forecasting | 551.63 N359 Calculating the weather meteorology in the 20th century |
Published in Association with the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction --
2. The great cooling --
3. Ice age cycles --
4. Trace gases warm the planet --
5. Moving continents and dating rocks --
6. Mapping past climates --
7. Into the icehouse --
8. The greenhouse gas theory matures --
9. Measuring and modelling CO₂ back through time --
10. The pulse of the earth --
11. Numerical climate models and case histories --
12. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the deep-ocean solution --
13. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the ice core tale --
14. The Holocene interglacial --
15. Medieval warming, the Little Ice Age, and the sun --
16. Putting it all together --
Appendices --
Index.
To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth s climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of sciences, not just the rock record uncovered by geologists.
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