To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth's climate changed
over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide …

Life on our planet depends upon having a climate that changes within narrow limits–not too
hot for the oceans to boil away nor too cold for the planet to freeze over. Over the past billion …

This book is designed for first-and second-year university students (and their instructors) in
earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes …

The Earth's climate has stayed within a window allowing continuous habitability by living
organisms for approaching 4 billion years, even though significant changes have occurred …

The effect of climate on historical change represents an exciting frontier for reading and
research. In this volume scholars contribute to an area of interdisciplinary study which has …

The field of paleoclimatology, and more generally the broader field of “paleo‐science,” has
seen substantial growth and increased recognition over the past decade. The prime …

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one
extreme, Earth has been glaciated from the poles to the equator for periods that may have …

We live in a world that is increasingly vulnerable to climatic shocks-affecting agriculture and
industry, government and international trade, not to mention human health and happiness …

Today, climate-related processes and problems are referred to as Global Change by nearly
everyone including scientists, politicians, and economists; citizens worldwide are anxious …