Earth's climate is always changing. As the debate over the Earth's climate has grown, the term 'climate change' has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those that are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth, Second Edition, serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated debate by providing scientific detail and evidence in language that is clear to both the climatologist and the non-specialist.
The book contains 35 chapters on all scientific aspects of climate change, written by the world's authority of each particular subject. It collects the latest information on all of these topics in one volume. In this way, readers can make connections between the various topics covered in the book, leading to new ways of solving problems and looking at related issues. The book also contains major references and details for further research and understanding on all issues related to climate change, giving a clear indication of a looming crisis in global warming and climate change.
- Provides an up-to-date account of the current understanding of climate change and global warming
- Includes 23 updated chapters and 12 new chapters
- Includes coverage on modeling climate change, geological history of climate change, and on engineering aspects of climate change
- Written by the world's leading experts on the issues related to climate change
Earth's climate is always changing. As the debate over the Earth's climate has grown, the term "e;climate change"e; has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those that are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth, Second Edition, serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated debate by providing scientific detail and evidence in language that is clear to both the climatologist and the non-specialist. The book contains 35 chapters on all scientific aspects of climate change, written by the world's authority of each particular subject. It collects the latest information on all of these topics in one volume. In this way, readers can make connections between the various topics covered in the book, leading to new ways of solving problems and looking at related issues. The book also contains major references and details for further research and understanding on all issues related to climate change, giving a clear indication of a looming crisis in global warming and climate change. Provides an up-to-date account of the current understanding of climate change and global warming Includes 23 updated chapters and 12 new chapters Includes coverage on modeling climate change, geological history of climate change, and on engineering aspects of climate change Written by the world's leading experts on the issues related to climate change
Climate Change Through Earth's History
Abstract
For at least 3.8 billion years, the Earth has possessed a climate system that continuously maintained a surface environment conducive to life, with liquid water at the surface, interchanging with various amounts of polar ice. The early Earth was warm, perhaps with higher concentrations of greenhouse gases compensating for a solar output smaller than present. Intermittent ice ages began ∼2.5 billion years ago, perhaps associated with oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere and reduction in methane levels; these included more or less worldwide ‘Snowball Earth’ events, with ice extending to low latitudes. From the beginning of the Phanerozoic, the Earth has alternated between ‘icehouse states’ – albeit of lesser severity than the ‘Snowball’ events – and ‘greenhouse states’, such as that of the Mesozoic Era. The Earth is currently in an icehouse state marked by geologically closely spaced fluctuations of climate, largely paced by astronomical variations and amplified by changes in greenhouse gas levels. The present interglacial state of the Holocene is very likely to soon attain levels of climatic warmth not seen for several million years, because of human modification of climate drivers, notably greenhouse gases.
Keywords
Anthropocene; Climate; Glaciations; Palaeoclimate; Quaternary
Chapter Outline
6. The Mesozoic – Early Cenozoic Greenhouse 8
7. Development of the Cenozoic Icehouse 9
8. Astronomical Modulation of Climate 9
9. Milankovitch Cyclicity in Quaternary (Pleistocene) Climate History 10
10. Quaternary Sub-Milankovitch Cyclicity 11
12. Climate of the Anthropocene 12
References 13
1. Introduction
2. Climate Models
3. Long-Term Climate Trends
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.9.2015 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Technik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-444-63535-1 / 0444635351 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-444-63535-8 / 9780444635358 |
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