Earth's Climate: Past and Future

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Macmillan, 2008 - Nature - 388 pages
Written from a multidisciplinary perspective by one of the field’s preeminent researcher/instructors, Earth’s Climate: Past and Future became a classroom favorite by providing an expert summary of climate change past, present, and future. The text worked equally well as either a nonmajors introduction to Earth system science or climate change, or as an upper-undergraduate-level overview of the processes and techniques in climate science.
The new edition incorporates coverage of climatological events and research discoveries in the seven years since the first edition, most importantly the now broadly accepted understanding that humans play a major role in warming the planet. It also incorporates changes designed to make the material more accessible to an introductory-level audience.
 

Contents

Development of Climate Science
7
Climate Interactions and Feedbacks Positive
16
Climate Models
31
TectonicScale Climate Change
40
Carbon Exchanges Between Rocks and
46
BRIEF CONTENTS
117
Carbon Dioxide
175
Climate Archives Data
191
Climate
229
Greenhouse Climate
251
Climate Interactions and Feedbacks Radiative
336
Change
343
Climate Interactions and Feedbacks Will Frozen
347
Climate Modification?
356
Isotopes of Carbon
363
Copyright

TectonicScale Climate
207

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