Understanding Earth's deep past
Subtitle: lessons for our climate future
By: Committee on the Importance of Deep-Time Geologic Records for Understanding Climate Change Impacts, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780309209151
Subjects: Forecasting; Climatic changes; Global warming; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-177).

Also available online in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Lessons from past warm worlds; title: Climate transitions, tipping points, and the point of no return; title: Deciphering past climates-reconciling models and observations; title: Implementing a deep-time climate research agenda; title: Conclusions and recommendations.