The whole story of climate: what science reveals about the nature of endless change
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| adam_text | THE WHOLE STORY OF CLIMATE
/ PETERS, E. KIRSTEN
: 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
FACING OUR CLIMATE ADVERSARY SQUARELY
THE ICE TIME
STAGGERING COMPLEXITIES AND SURPRISING SIDE EFFECTS
FROM WOOLLY MAMMOTHS TO SABER TOOTH TIGERS
MIRACULOUS MUD
WOOD REVEALS CLIMATE CLUES
THE EVIDENCE OF THE ICE
EVEN MORE FREQUENT BOOM-BUST CYCLES
HAVE HUMANS SHAPED CLIMATE FOR MILLENNIA?
FROM EFFORTS TO MODIFY CLIMATE TO FEARS OF GLOBAL COOLING
GLOBAL WARMING DISCOVERED
LEAVING THE GARDEN.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
CONTENTS
1. FACING OUR CLIMATE ADVERSARY SQUARELY 9
2. THE ICE TIME 23
3. STAGGERING COMPLEXITIES AND
SURPRISING SIDE EFFECTS 43
4. FROM WOOLLY MAMMOTHS TO
SABER-TOOTHED TIGERS 67
5. MIRACULOUS MUD 83
6. WOOD REVEALS CLIMATE CLUES 99
7. THE EVIDENCE OF THE ICE 131
8. EVEN MORE FREQUENT BOOM-BUST CYCLES 149
9. HAVE HUMANS SHAPED CLIMATE FOR MILLENNIA? 171
10. FROM EFFORTS TO MODIFY CLIMATE TO FEARS OF
GLOBAL COOLING 193
11. GLOBAL WARMING DISCOVERED 207
12. LEAVING THE GARDEN 239
AKNOWLEDGMENTS 259
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 263
NOTES 265
REFERENCES 271
INDEX 285
7
In public debates about global warming,
climate scientists are usually the experts
consulted by the media. We rarely hear
from geologists, who for almost two hun-
dred years have been studying the history
of Earth’s dramatic and repeated climate
revolutions, as revealed in the evidence of
rocks and landscapes.
In The Whole Story of Climate, geologist
E. Kirsten Peters describes the important
contributions that geology has made to our
understanding of climate change. What
emerges is a much more complex and
nuanced picture than is usually presented.
While the average person may be under
the impression that the Earth’s climate
would be essentially stable if it weren’t for
the damaging effects of greenhouse gases,
in fact, the history of our planet over many
millennia reveals a constantly changing cli-
mate. As Peters explains, several long, cold
eras have been punctuated by shorter, warm
periods. The most recent of these warm
spells, the one in which we are now living,
started ten thousand years ago-, based on
previous patterns, we should be about due
for the return of another frigid epoch. Some
scientists even think that the warming of the
planet caused by human-made greenhouse
gases tied to agriculture in the past few
thousand years may have had the beneficial
effect of forestalling the next Ice Age.
Though this may be possible, much
remains uncertain. But what is clearly known
is that major climate shifts can be appallingly
rapid—occurring over as little as twenty or
thirty years. One danger of dumping green-
house gases into the atmosphere is that they
may increase the chance that this “climate
switch” will be thrown, with catastrophic
effects on worldwide agriculture.
In addition to her discussion of climate,
Peters includes chapters on how early nat-
uralists pieced together the complicated
geologic history of Earth, and she teaches
the reader how to interpret the evidence of
rock formations and landscape patterns all
around us.
Authoritative yet accessible and engag-
ingly written, The Whole Story of Climate is
essential reading for understanding one of
our most important contemporary debates.
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