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|a QC 903
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|a Cowie, Jonathan
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|a Climate change
|b biological and human aspects
|c Jonathan Cowie.
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|a 2nd ed.
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|a Cambridge
|b Cambridge University Press
|c c2013.
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|a xxii, 558 p.
|b ill., cartes
|c 26 cm.
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index.
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|a An introduction to climate change -- Weather or climate -- The greenhouse effect -- The carbon cycle -- Natural changes in the carbon cycle -- Pacemaker of the glacial-interglacial cycles -- Non-greenhouse influences on climate -- The water cycle, climate change and biology -- From theory to reality -- Principal indicators of past climates -- Terrestial biotic climate proxies -- Marine biotic climate proxies -- Non-biotic indicators -- Other indicators -- Interpreting indicators -- Past climate change -- Early biology and climate of Hadean and Archeaen eons -- Major bio-climatic events of the Proterozoic eon -- Major bio-climatic events of the ore-Quaternary Phanerozoic -- The Oligocene to the quaternary: climate and biology -- The Oligocene -- The end Miocene -- The Pliocene -- The current ice age -- The last glacial -- Interglacials and the present climate -- Present climate and biological change -- Recent climate change -- Human change arising from the Holocene climate -- Climate and business as usual in 21st century -- Current human influences on the carbon cycle -- Current warming and likely future impacts -- Current biological symptoms of warming -- Case study: climate and natural systems in the USA and Canada -- Case study: climate and natural systems in UK -- Case study: climate and natural systems in Australaisa -- Biological responses to greenhouse trends beyond the 21st century -- Possible surprise responses to greenhouse trends in the 21st century -- The human ecology of climate change -- Population (past, present and future) and its environmental impact -- Energy supply -- Human health and climate change -- Climate change and food security -- The biology of reducing anthropogenic climate change -- Sustainability and policy -- Key development of sustainability policy -- Global energy sustainability and carbon -- Energy policy and carbon -- Possible future energy options -- Future human and biological change.
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|a Climatic changes
|v History.
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|a Paleoclimatology.
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|a Climatic changes
|x Environmental aspects.
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|a Human beings
|x Effect of environment on.
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|a Physical anthropology.
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|a Mass extinctions.
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|h QC 903 C68 2013
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