Earth's Climate : Past and future. Third edition
Ruddiman, William F.
At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, William Ruddiman's breakthrough text returns in a thoroughly updated new edition. Again 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. This edition features a newly included chapter, "Earth's climate system today", which offers a helpful foundation for understanding the basic operation of the climate system. It also covers a wide range of important recent advances in climate research, including: - Cyclic orbital-scale changes in ice sheet size, - Millennial-scale changes in climate, - Responses of the climate system to global warming. (4ème de couverture)
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