Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate / William F. Ruddiman.
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 202 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0691121648 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780691121642
- 363.738/74 22
- QC981 .R763 2005
- 15.50
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-196) and index.
1. Climate and human history -- 2. Slow going for a few million years -- 3. Linking earth's orbit to its climate -- 4. Orbital changes control ice-age cycles -- 5. Orbital changes control monsoon cycles -- 6. Stirrings of change -- 7. Early agriculture and civilization -- 8. Taking control of methane -- 9. Taking control of COb2s -- 10. Have we delayed a glaciation? -- 11. Challenges and responses -- 12. But what about those COb2s "wiggles"? -- 13. The horsemen of the apocalypse : which one? -- 14. Pandemics, COb2s, and climate -- 15. Greenhouse warming : tortoise and hare -- 16. Future warming : large or small? -- 17. From the past into the distant future -- 18. Global-change science and politics -- 19. Consuming earth's gifts
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