• Renowned Author, Bill Ruddiman
• Multidisciplinary Presentation
• Focus on Major Themes such as the causes of Climate Change
• Follows Earth's Timeline
• Mystery Solving Approach
• Superb Art
• Features Boxes

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• New chapter 2: Earth's Climate System Today
• The chapter gives students a valuable foundation for understanding the basic operation of the climate system. Formerly available only online, this chapter has been integrated into the main text.
• Important Recent Advances
• The new edition discusses a wide range of new research throughout, including the latest on:
• Cyclic orbital-scale changes in ice sheet size (Chapter 11)
• Millennial-scale changes in climate (Chapter 14)
• Responses of components of the climate system to global warming (Chapter 17)

PART I: FRAMEWORK OF CLIMATE SCIENCE

1. Overview of Climate Science

2. Earth's Climate System Today

3. Climatic Archives, Data and Models

PART II: TECTONIC-SCALE CLIMATE CHANGE

4. CO2 and Long-Term Climate

5. Plate Tectonics and Long-Term Climate

6. Greenhouse Climate From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Last 50 Million Years

PART III: ORBITAL-SCALE CLIMATE CHANGE

8. Astronomical Control of Solar Radiation

9. Insolation Control of Monsoons

10. Insolation Control of Ice Sheets

11. Orbital-Scale Changes in Carbon Dioxide and Methane

12. Orbital-Scale Interactions, Feedbacks, and Unsolved Problems

PART IV: GLACIAL/DEGLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE

13. The Last Glacial Maximum

14. Climate During and Since the Last Deglaciation

15. Millennial Oscillations of Climate

PART V: HISTORICAL AND FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE

16. Humans and Pre-Industrial Climate

17. Climate Changes During the Last 1000 Years

18. Climate Changes Since 1850

19. Causes of Warming over the Last 125 Years

20. Future Climatic Change.