Earth's climate evolution /
Summerhayes, C. P.
Earth's climate evolution / Colin P. Summerhayes. - Oxford Wiley 2015 - xiv, 394 pages : illustrations ;
"Published in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The great cooling -- 3. Ice age cycles -- 4. Trace gases warm the planet -- 5. Moving continents and dating rocks -- 6. Mapping past climates -- 7. Into the icehouse -- 8. The greenhouse gas theory matures -- 9. Measuring and modelling CO b2 s back through time -- 10. The pulse of the earth -- 11. Numerical climate models and case histories -- 12. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the deep-ocean solution -- 13. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the ice core tale -- 14. The Holocene interglacial -- 15. Medieval warming, the Little Ice Age, and the sun -- 16. Putting it all together.
9781118897393 (cloth) 1118897390 (cloth)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Climatic changes
Geological carbon sequestration.
Paleoclimatology.
Ice cores.
551.609 / SUM.E
Earth's climate evolution / Colin P. Summerhayes. - Oxford Wiley 2015 - xiv, 394 pages : illustrations ;
"Published in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The great cooling -- 3. Ice age cycles -- 4. Trace gases warm the planet -- 5. Moving continents and dating rocks -- 6. Mapping past climates -- 7. Into the icehouse -- 8. The greenhouse gas theory matures -- 9. Measuring and modelling CO b2 s back through time -- 10. The pulse of the earth -- 11. Numerical climate models and case histories -- 12. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the deep-ocean solution -- 13. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the ice core tale -- 14. The Holocene interglacial -- 15. Medieval warming, the Little Ice Age, and the sun -- 16. Putting it all together.
9781118897393 (cloth) 1118897390 (cloth)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Climatic changes
Geological carbon sequestration.
Paleoclimatology.
Ice cores.
551.609 / SUM.E