Earth's Climate: Past and FuturePaleoclimatology courses are growing, attracting a wide variety of students in earth and environmental sciences, geography, ecology, and related fields. 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 one of the field's preeminent researcher/instructors, 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. |
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Adapted amount Antarctic Antarctica Arctic atmosphere bedrock carbon caused Chapter chemical weathering climate changes climate models climate scientists climate system CO₂ continents cooling coral cycles debris deep water deglaciation deposited Earth's climate Earth's surface effect El Niño estimated evidence Figure flow foraminifera global greenhouse gases Greenland ice heat human hypothesis ice cores ice sheets ice volume ice-rafting increase interglacial intervals isotope lakes land last glacial maximum latitudes layers Little Ice Age lower margins measurements melting meltwater meters millennial oscillations millennial-scale model simulations monsoon mountain glaciers Myr ago Niño North America North Atlantic northern hemisphere occurred orbital orbital-scale Pacific Pangaea plankton polar pollen precipitation regions response result rise rocks sea ice sea level seasonal sediments signal solar radiation southern summer insolation sunspot surface waters tectonic tion tree ring trend tropical twentieth century values vegetation warmer warming water vapor winds winter Younger Dryas