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Earth's Climate: Past and Future , Second Edition William F. Ruddiman
Publisher: W.H. Freeman

4 days ago - Nevertheless, certain websites and individuals that dispute, disparage and deny the science that shows that humans are causing the Earth to warm continue to quote my article. It requires internationally co-ordinated actions with . A useful book on how destructive our species has been for perhaps 100,000 years is Tim Flannery's Future Eaters, which Holmgren mentions once, but not in this context.[8]. 9 hours ago - The Board of the Green Climate Fund – the new multilateral fund to support developing countries in efforts to address climate change – finalized its overarching business model so that countries can begin to direct resources through the fund. 5 hours ago - [6] This is certainly what I have found while carrying out research into past and present problems of land degradation. I, for one, remain unsettled by the lack of accuracy in prediction of the future, and even the past. Indeed, the human population has exploded over the past ten thousand years, from about five million at the start (about the same as the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, but spread evenly across the world) to nearly seven billion today. Mar 9, 2014 - Koch's book goes a long way toward making the connection between the continued operation of the capitalist system and the progressive deepening of climate change on planet Earth. Turbines variations will power aircraft of all sizes in the future. Mar 23, 2014 - The reasons aren't always settled in science, but strong possibilities for the various mass extinctions include a dramatic release of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, climatic shifts that tipped the globe into prolonged ice ages and The early part of Kolbert's new book is an exploration of this exploration of the past, telling the stories of scientists who worked to reconstruct this grim timeline of species loss. Jul 24, 2012 - People who actually study the climate overwhelmingly agree that greenhouse gases generated by human activity are pushing Earth's climate into a state the world hasn't seen for many tens of thousands of years. Similarly, when extensive forest clearance for agriculture changed the climate to alternating floods and drought, people might well resort to appealing to a rain god in the sky. 4 days ago - “This (climate assessment) is pure rhetorical nonsense born of a cynical attempt to exploit short term memories and/or little knowledge of the Earth's climate history and climate processes. Feb 27, 2014 - “Earth's average surface temperature has increased by about 0.8°C since 1900.” Mr Obama is also joined by the vast majority of climate As Mr Victor explains in his excellent book, “Global Warming Gridlock”, effective political action on climate change is a hard problem.