Earth's Climate: Past and FutureWritten 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 |
TectonicScale Climate | 207 |
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100 Myr ago Adapted amount Antarctic Antarctica Arctic areas atmosphere basins bedrock caused century Chapter chemical weathering climate change climate models climate scientists climate system CO₂ concentrations continental continents cooling coral cycle debris deglaciation deposited Earth's climate effect evidence factors Figure flow foraminifera geologic global greenhouse gases heat hypothesis ice cores ice sheets ice volume ice-rafted increase indicate interglacial intervals isotope lakes land last glacial maximum latitudes layers Little Ice Age margins melting methane millennial oscillations model simulations modern monsoon mountain glaciers North America northern hemisphere occurred ocean crust orbital orbital-scale organic carbon Pangaea plankton polar pollen precession precipitation processes reconstruction reefs regions reservoirs response result rock sea ice sea level seafloor season sediments signal solar radiation South southern summer insolation summer monsoon surface waters tectonic temperature tilt tion tree rings trend tropical uplift values variations vegetation volcanic warmer warming water vapor winds winter Younger Dryas