| Description |
xiv, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-196) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Climate and human history -- 2. Slow going for a few million years -- 3. Linking earth's orbit to its climate -- 4. Orbital changes control ice-age cycles -- 5. Orbital changes control monsoon cycles -- 6. Stirrings of change -- 7. Early agriculture and civilization -- 8. Taking control of methane -- 9. Taking control of CO2 -- 10. Have we delayed a glaciation? -- 11. Challenges and responses -- 12. But what about those CO2 "wiggles"? -- 13. The horsemen of the apocalypse : which one? -- 14. Pandemics, CO2, and climate -- 15. Greenhouse warming : tortoise and hare -- 16. Future warming : large or small? -- 17. From the past into the distant future -- 18. Global-change science and politics -- 19. Consuming earth's gifts. |
| Subject |
Climatology.
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Climatic changes.
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Global temperature changes.
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Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
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| ISBN |
0691121648 cloth alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780691121642 |
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