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A brief history of the Earth's climate, everyone's guide to the science of climate change, Steven Earle, PhD
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  • "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."--, Provided by publisher
Table of 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?
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  • eng
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  • non fiction
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  • xvi, 189 pages, illustrations, maps, portrait, 23 cm
Isbn
  • 9780865719590
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