Earth's Climate: Past and Future

Earth's Climate: Past and Future
ISBN-10
0716737418
ISBN-13
9780716737414
Category
Science
Pages
465
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Macmillan
Authors
William F. Ruddiman, University William F Ruddiman

Description

Paleoclimatology 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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