Earth's Climate: Past and Future , Second Edition William F. Ruddiman
Publisher: W.H. Freeman

Jan 20, 2011 - Cross-posted from NextGen Journal As an aspiring climate scientist, I have read dozens of books about climate change over the past few years. 5 hours ago - [6] This is certainly what I have found while carrying out research into past and present problems of land degradation. I, for one, remain unsettled by the lack of accuracy in prediction of the future, and even the past. 2 days ago - I congratulate the 93d Congress for taking this important step toward protecting a heritage which we hold in trust to countless future generations of our fellow citizens. 5 days ago - In general, “climate sensitivity” is an attempt to quantify how much earth's climate system reacts to stimulus. And then the next came, well, those people are so evil and hateful, let's bring every book that they've written or has to do with them and let's start burning the books, because we can't tolerate their intolerance. Here are my all-time entirely of bragging rights.) Best Analysis of Future Scenarios Climate Wars, by Gwynne Dyer View… Until this period of massive climatic swings, the only thing that lived on Earth was unicellular goop…but immediately following the Snowball Earth cycles, complex life appeared. Or read my own paper in the “PRP Forbidden Book”:. Similarly, when extensive forest clearance for agriculture changed the climate to alternating floods and drought, people might well resort to appealing to a rain god in the sky. Feb 27, 2014 - “Earth's average surface temperature has increased by about 0.8°C since 1900.” Mr Obama is also joined by the vast majority of climate As Mr Victor explains in his excellent book, “Global Warming Gridlock”, effective political action on climate change is a hard problem. It requires internationally co-ordinated actions with . A useful book on how destructive our species has been for perhaps 100,000 years is Tim Flannery's Future Eaters, which Holmgren mentions once, but not in this context.[8]. Their lives will be richer, and America will be more . Do quantified changes in stimulus (more Her recent book, Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming, discusses in very accessible terms the intersection between scientists siding with the tobacco industry and scientists siding with the Koch Bros. Jan 30, 2014 - The centennial changes between grand solar maxima and minima imply that we will soon be in a new solar minimum and, in analogy with past events, probably also in Little Ice Age climatic conditions.” In the paper Mörner's paper looks at the sun's impacts on the Earth's climate through solar cycles, whose history has been reconstructed for the entire Holocene through the analysis of 10Be and 14C isotopes.