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A brief history of the Earth's climate : everyone's guide to the science of climate change

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  • Author: Earle, Steven
    Contributor: Puttonen,Mike
    Date:
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    2021
    Summary:

    A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and more dangerous, and how to counter skeptics and deniers with sound science.

    Contents:
    • What controls the Earth's climate?
    • A slowly warming Sun
    • Sliding plates and colliding continents
    • Cooling and warming from volcanic eruptions
    • Earth's orbital variations
    • Moving heat with ocean currents
    • Short-term solar variations
    • Catastrophic collisions
    • A plague of humans
    • Tipping points
    • What now?.
    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, Math and science, Nature and the environment
    Sujets: Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on | Climatic changes | Global warming
    Original Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, New Society Publishers
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781550927528, 1550927523, 9781771423489