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Climate Change in the Next 100 to 1000 Years
Earth's Climate: Past and Future
Format: Book Chapter
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2000
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages: 423 - 441
Sources ID: 80606
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Paleoclimatology courses are growing, attracting a wide variety of students in earth and environmental sciences, geography, ecology, and related fields. Earth's Climate: Past and Future works as either a nonmajors introduction to Earth system science or climate change, or as a majors/graduate-level overview of the processes and techniques in climate science. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective by one of the field's preeminent researcher/instructors, the text summarizes the major lessons to be learned from 550 million years of climate changes, as a way of evaluating the climatological impact on and by humans in this century. The book also looks ahead to possible effects during the next several centuries of fossil fuel use.