List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiii |
What Has Controlled Earth's Climate? | |
Climate and Human History | p. 5 |
Nature in Control | |
Slow Going for a Few Million Years | p. 17 |
Linking Earth's Orbit to Its Climate | p. 25 |
Orbital Changes Control Ice-Age Cycles | p. 35 |
Orbital Changes Control Monsoon Cycles | p. 46 |
Stirrings of Change | p. 55 |
Humans Begin to Take Control | |
Early Agriculture and Civilization | p. 65 |
Taking Control of Methane | p. 76 |
Taking Control of CO 2 | p. 84 |
Have We Delayed a Glaciation? | p. 95 |
Challenges and Responses | p. 106 |
Disease Enters the Picture | |
But What about Those CO 2 "Wiggles"? | p. 119 |
The Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Which One? | p. 127 |
Pandemics, CO 2 , and Climate | p. 139 |
Humans in Control | |
Greenhouse Warming: Tortoise and Hare | p. 151 |
Future Warming: Large or Small? | p. 159 |
From the Past into the Distant Future 169 Epilogue | |
Global-Change Science and Politics | p. 179 |
Consuming Earth's Gifts | p. 190 |
Bibliography | p. 195 |
Figure Sources | p. 197 |
Index | p. 199 |
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