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1 online resource (xiv, 394 pages : : illustrations.)
The book takes a unique approach to the subject providing a description of the greenhouse and icehouse worlds of the past 450 million years since land plants emerged, ignoring major earlier glaciations like that of Snowball Earth, which occurred around 600 million years ago in a world free of land plants. It describes the evolution of thinking in palaeoclimatology and introduces the main players in the field and how their ideas were received and, in many cases, subsequently modified. It records the arguments and discussions about the merits of different ideas along the way. It also includes several notes made from the authors own personal involvement in palaeoclimatological and palaeoceanographic studies, and from his experience of working alongside several of the major players in these fields in recent years.
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.
"Published in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015