http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xvii, 445 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 28 cm
At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause of global climate change, William Ruddiman's breakthrough text returns in a thoroughly updated new edition. A gain drawing on a variety of scientific disciplines, the new edition offers a clear, engaging, objective portrait of the current state of climate science, including compelling recent findings on anthropogenic global warming and important advances in understanding past climates.
Overview of climate science -- Earth's climate system today -- Climate archives, data, and models -- CO₂ and long-term climate -- Plate tectonics and long-term climate -- Greenhouse climate -- From greenhouse to icehouse : the last 50 million years -- Astronomical control of solar radiation -- Insolation control of monsoons -- Insolation control of ice sheets -- Orbital-scale changes in carbon dioxide and methane -- Orbital-scale interactions, feedbacks, and unsolved mysteries -- The last glacial maximum -- Climate during and since the last deglaciation -- Millennial oscillations of climate -- Humans and preindustrial climate -- Climate changes during the last 1,000 years -- Climatic changes since 1850 -- Causes of warming over the last 125 years -- Future climatic change -- Isotopes of oxygen -- Isotopes of carbon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.