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|aRuddimanW. F|q((William F.)|d1943
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|aPlows, plagues, and petroleum : |bhow humans took control of climate / |cWillam F. Ruddiman ; with a new afterword by the author
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|a1st Princeton Science Library ed
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|aPrinceton, NJ : |bPrinceton University Press, |c2010
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|axiv, 226 p : |bill ; |c24 cm
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217) and index
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|aClimate and human history--Slow going for a few million years--Linking earth's orbit to its climate--Orbital changes control ice-age cycles--Orbital changes control monsoon cycles--Stirrings of change--Early agriculture and civilization--Taking control of methane--Taking control of COb2s--Have we delayed a glaciation?--Challenges and responses--But what about those COb2s "wiggles"?--The horsemen of the apocalypse : which one?--Pandemics, COb2s, and climate--Greenhouse warming : tortoise and hare--Future warming : large or small?--From the past into the distant future--Global-change science and politics--Consuming ea
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|aWilliam Ruddiman explores a scientific mystery - the fact that methane concentrations in the atmosphere have risen for the last 5000 years, when all indications are that it should have fallen. He attributes this to the involvement of humans
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|aClimatology
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|aClimatic changes
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|aGlobal temperature changes
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|aGreenhouse effect, Atmospheric
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