Earths climate evolution 1. Introduction 2. The great cooling 3. Ice age cycles 4. Trace gases warm the planet 5. Moving continents and dating rocks 6. Mapping past climates 7. Into the icehouse 8. The greenhouse gas theory matures 9. Measuring and modelling CO b2 s back through time 10. The pulse of the earth 11. Numerical climate models and case histories 12. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the deep ocean solution 13. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the ice core tale 14. The Holocene interglacial 15. Medieval warming the Little Ice Age and the sun 16. Putting it all together