Bender, Michael L.

Paleoclimate / Michael L. Bender. - Princeton : Princeton Press, 2013. - xi, 306 pages ; - Princeton primers in climate .

Earth's climate system -- The faint young sun -- Precambrian glaciations -- Regulation of the Earth system and global temperature -- The late Paleozoic ages -- Equable climates of the Mesozoic and Paleogene -- The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum -- The long cooling of the Cenozoic -- The origin of Northern Hemisphere glaciation and the Pleistocene ice ages -- Rapid climate change during the last glacial period -- The Holocene -- Anthropogenic global warming in the context of paleoclimate.

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Paleoclimatology.

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