Earth's climate : past and future / William F. Ruddiman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Framework of Climate Science -- Overview of Climate Science -- Earths Climate System Today -- Climate Archives, Data, and Models -- Tectonic-Scale Climate Change: CO2 and Long-Term Climate -- Plate Tectonics and Long-Term Climate -- Greenhouse Climate -- From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Last 50 Million Years -- Orbital-Scale Climate Change -- Astronomical Control of Solar Radiation -- Insolation Control of Monsoons -- Insolation Control of Ice Sheets -- Orbital-Scale Changes in Carbon Dioxide and Methane -- Orbital-Scale Interactions, Feedbacks, and Unsolved Mysteries -- Glacial/Deglacial Climate Change: The Last Glacial Maximum -- Climate During and Since the Last Deglaciation -- Millennial Oscillations of Climate -- Historical and Future Climate Change: Humans and Preindustrial Climate -- Climate Changes During the Last 1,000 Years -- Climatic Changes Since 1850 -- Causes of Warming over the Last 125 Years -- Future Climatic Change

At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, William Ruddiman's breakthrough text returns in a thoroughly updated new edition. It offers a clear, engaging, objective portrait of the current state of climate science, including compelling recent findings on anthropogenic global warming and important advances in understanding past climates.