Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum : : How Humans Took Control of Climate / / William F. Ruddiman.
The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum has sparked lively scientific debate since it was...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | With a New afterword by the author |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 19 halftones. 19 line illus. 5 tables. 7 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- PART ONE What Has Controlled Earth's Climate?
- WHAT HAS CONTROLLED EARTH'S CLIMATE?
- Chapter One. CLIMATE AND HUMAN HISTORY
- PART TWO Nature in Control
- NATURE IN CONTROL
- Chapter Two. SLOW GOING FOR A FEW MILLION YEARS
- Chapter Three. LINKING EARTH'S ORBIT TO ITS CLIMATE
- Chapter Four. ORBITAL CHANGES CONTROL ICE-AGE CYCLES
- Chapter Five. ORBITAL CHANGES CONTROL MONSOON CYCLES
- Chapter Six. STIRRINGS OF CHANGE
- PART THREE Humans Begin to Take Control
- HUMANS BEGIN TO TAKE CONTROL
- Chapter Seven. EARLY AGRICULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
- Chapter Eight. TAKING CONTROL OF METHANE
- Chapter Nine. TAKING CONTROL OF CO2
- Chapter Ten. HAVE WE DELAYED A GLACIATION?
- Chapter Eleven. CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES
- PART FOUR Disease Enters the Picture
- DISEASE ENTERS THE PICTURE
- Chapter Twelve. BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE CO2 "WIGGLES"?
- Chapter Thirteen. THE HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE: WHICH ONE?
- Chapter Fourteen. PANDEMICS, CO2, AND CLIMATE
- PART FIVE Humans in Control
- HUMANS IN CONTROL
- Chapter Fifteen. GREENHOUSE WARMING: TORTOISE AND HARE
- Chapter Sixteen. FUTURE WARMING: LARGE OR SMALL?
- Chapter Seventeen FROM THE PAST INTO THE DISTANT FUTURE
- Epilogue
- EPILOGUE
- Chapter Eighteen GLOBAL-CHANGE SCIENCE AND POLITICS
- Chapter Nineteen CONSUMING EARTH'S GIFTS
- AFTERWORD TO THE PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- FIGURE SOURCES AND CREDITS
- INDEX