Earth's Climate. Past and Future
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Author(s): W. F. Ruddiman
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9780716784906
Format: softback
388pp
Price: £55.99
Review Date: 18 March 2008
Review: This new edition takes account of the recent evidence confirming the role of greenhouse gases in the ongoing warming of the last century. The story of Earth’s climate takes in geology, ecology, palaeontology, glaciology, oceanography, meteorology, biochemistry, climate modelling, atmospheric chemistry, and hydrology. It surveys Earth’s major systems (ice, water, air, vegetation and land) following, step-by-step, the time-line through history. It begins by describing the field of climate science and goes on to explore how Earth’s climate has changed over the years. Finally, it looks at future climate change with rising CO2 levels causing unprecedented changes.