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BRIEF CONTENTS
PART I Framework of Climate CHAPTER 10 Orbital-Scale Changes in
Science 1 Carbon Dioxide and
Methane 175
CHAPTER 1 Overview of Climate
Science 3 CHAPTER 11 Orbital-Scale Interactions,
Feedbacks, and Unsolved
CHAPTER 2 Climate Archives, Data,
Problems 191
and Models 17
PART II Tectonic-Scale Climate PART IV Deglacial Climate
Change 40 Change 206
CHAPTER 3CO and Long-Term CHAPTER 12 Last Glacial Maximum 209
2
Climate 43 CHAPTER 13 Climate During and Since
CHAPTER 4 Plate Tectonics and the Last Deglaciation 229
Long-Term Climate 59 CHAPTER 14 Millennial Oscillations
CHAPTER 5 Greenhouse Climate 81 of Climate 251
CHAPTER 6 From Greenhouse to
PART V Historical and Future
Icehouse: The Last
Climate Change 270
50 Million Years 97
CHAPTER 15 Humans and Preindustrial
PART III Orbital-Scale Climate Climate 273
Change 116 CHAPTER 16 Climate Changes During
CHAPTER 7 Astronomical Control the Last 1000 Years 289
of Solar Radiation 119 CHAPTER 17 Climatic Changes Since
CHAPTER 8 Insolation Control 1850 309
of Monsoons 137 CHAPTER 18 Causes of Warming over
CHAPTER 9 Insolation Control the Last 125 Years 325
of Ice Sheets 155 CHAPTER 19 Future Climatic Change 343
Earth’s Climate System Today (Chapter 2 from
Earth’s Climate, First Edition) is available at
www.whfreeman.com/ruddiman2e.
