num_pages: 465
description: Paleoclimatology courses are growing, attracting a wide variety of students in earth and environmental sciences, geography, ecology, and related fields. Earth's Past and Future works as either a nonmajors introduction to Earth system science or climate change, or as a majors/graduate-level overview of the processes and techniques in climate science. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective by one of the field's preeminent researcher/instructors, the text summarizes the major lessons to be learned from 550 million years of climate changes, as a way of evaluating the climatological impact on and by humans in this century. The book also looks ahead to possible effects during the next several centuries of fossil fuel use.
language: English
title: Earth's Climate: Past and Future
titlecomplete: Earth's Climate: Past and Future
genres: Climate Change, School, History, Science, Earth Sciences, Geology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Environment
ratings_count: 106
publisher: W. H. Freeman