Brief History of the Earth's Climate

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction


1. What Controls the Earth's Climate?

2. A Slowly Warming Sun

3. Sliding Plates and Colliding Continents

4. Cooling and Warming from Volcanic Eruptions

5. Earth's Orbital Variations

6. Moving Heat with Ocean Currents

7. Short-term Solar Variations

8. Catastrophic Collisions

9. A Plague of Humans

10. Tipping Points

11. What Now?


Notes

Index

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