Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate /

The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative new book argues that humans have actually b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:QC981 R8.22
Main Author: Ruddiman, William F., 1943- (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005].
Subjects:
Climatology
Climatología
Climatic changes
Cambios climáticos
Global temperature changes
Cambios globales de temperatura
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
Efecto atmosférico de invernadero
Table of Contents:
  • Climate and human history.
  • Slow going for a few million years.
  • Linking earth's orbit to its climate.
  • Orbital changes controlice-age cycles.
  • Orbital changes control monsoon cycles.
  • Stirringsof change.
  • Early agriculture and civilization.
  • Taking control ofmethane.
  • Taking control of CO?b2?s.
  • Have we delayed a glaciation?.
  • Challenges and responses.
  • But what about those CO?b2?s"wiggles"?.
  • Horsemen of the apocalypse : which one?.
  • Pandemics, CO?b2?s, and climate.
  • Greenhouse warming : tortoise andhare.
  • Future warming : large or small?.
  • From the past into thedistant future.
  • Global-change science and politics.
  • Consumingearth's gifts.

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