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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Contents
Lectures Based on Earths Climate Lecture Topic Section and Chapter 1 Overview of the climate system Part 1 Chapter | 1 |
Response times and feedbacks 3 Radiation and the atmosphere Chapter | 2 |
Heat transfer in the atmosphere and ocean 5 Deep water ice and vegetation 6 Climate data and models Chapter | 3 |
Climate Factors That Control Chemical | 4 |
Basics of plate tectonics Chapter | 5 |
CO removal 11 Climate on the supercontinent Pangaea 12 The Cretaceous greenhouse climate Chapter | 6 |
Tectonicscale changes in sea level 14 Oxygen isotopes Chapter | 7 |
Overview of the Climate System | 8 |
Sea Level Changes and Climate | 137 |
Earths Climate System Today | 144 |
Heat Transfer in Earths Atmosphere | 185 |
Cycles and Modulation | 192 |
Refinements of the Orbital Monsoon | 204 |
289 | 238 |
Heat Transfer in Earths Oceans | 247 |
204 | 253 |
Changes in insolation received on Earth 18 Orbital changes in monsoons Chapter | 9 |
Orbital changes in ice sheets 1 Chapter | 10 |
Orbital changes in ice sheets | 11 |
The Last Glacial Maximum | 13 |
Temperature Scales | 17 |
Carbon isotopes and orbital changes in deep water | 22 |
Oxtygen Isotope Ratios 8180 | 24 |
Is 87Sr86Sr | 46 |
Climate Models | 71 |
28 | 86 |
CO and LongTerm Climate | 101 |
Plate Tectonics and Climate | 103 |
The Polar Position Hypothesis | 109 |
32 | 122 |
What Controls Chemical Weathering? | 125 |
Greenhouse Earth | 129 |
Orbitalscale interactions in the climate system Chapter 12 | 254 |
Northern Hemisphere | 260 |
Survey of the last glacial maximum Part IV Chapter 13 | 299 |
Climate During and Since the last | 301 |
Climate Changes During and Since | 313 |
Ice on Earth | 355 |
Historical and Instrumental Observations | 369 |
Natural Causes of Historical Climate Changes | 376 |
Humans and Climate Change | 383 |
The Impact of Climate on Early Civilizations | 391 |
Impacts of Humans on CH Levels | 406 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Earth's Climate: Past and Future |
| Author | William F. Ruddiman |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0716737418, 9780716737414 |
| Length | 465 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Earth Sciences / Geology |
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