To understand climate change today, we first need to know howEarth s climate changed over the past 450 million years.Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range ofsciences, not just the rock record uncovered by geologists. InEarth s Climate Evolution, Colin Summerhayes analyzesreports and records of past climate change dating back to the late18th century to uncover key patterns in the climate system. Thebook will transform debate and set the agenda for the nextgeneration of thought about future climate change. The book takes a unique approach to the subject providing adescription of the greenhouse and icehouse worlds of the past 450million years since land plants emerged, ignoring major earlierglaciations like that of Snowball Earth, which occurred around 600million years ago in a world free of land plants. It describes theevolution of thinking in palaeoclimatology and introduces the mainplayers in the field and how their ideas were received and, in manycases, subsequently modified. It records the arguments anddiscussions about the merits of different ideas along the way. Italso includes several notes made from the author s ownpersonal involvement in palaeoclimatological and palaeoceanographicstudies, and from his experience of working alongside several ofthe major players in these fields in recent years. This book will be an invaluable reference for both undergraduateand postgraduate students taking courses in related fields and willalso be of interest to historians of science and/or geology,climatology and oceanography. INDICE: Chapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: The Great Cooling.Chapter 3: Ice Age Cycles.Chapter 4: Trace Gases Warm The Planet.Chapter 5: Moving Continents and Dating Rocks.Chapter 6: Mapping Past Climates.Chapter 7: Into the Icehouse.Chapter 8: Greenhouse Gas Theory Matures.Chapter 9: Measuring and Modelling CO2 Back Through Time.Chapter 10: The Pulse of the Earth.Chapter 11: Numerical Climate Models and Case Histories.Chapter 12: Solving the Ice Age Mystery The Deep Ocean Solution.Chapter 13: Solving the Ice Age Mystery The Ice Core Tale.Chapter 14: The Holocene Interglacial.Chapter 15: Medieval Warming, the Little Ice Age, and the Sun.Chapter 16: Putting It All Together
- ISBN: 978-1-118-89739-3
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 19/06/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés