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Earth Transformed
First Edition| ©2014 William F. Ruddiman
ISBN:9781464107764
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It's a question that has engaged climate scientists for more than a decade: Not if human activity impacts the environment, but when did that impact start to be significant? Was it in the mid-18th century, as long believed, with the Industrial Revolution producing huge amounts in greenhouse gas emissions? Or did it actually begin thousands of years earlier, as a result of the discovery and spread of agricultural practices?
Features
Earth Transformed is concise enough for a single-term course. Instructors can focus on Parts 1-4 covering the major issues and explanations of greenhouse gas trends, or continue into coverage of more controversial aspects of the book
Accessible
Ruddiman makes the science behind contested climate change issues understandable and fascinating for the non-scientist. It can be used in courses taught to humanities students satisfying a science requirement. It builds from simplicity toward moderate complexity in a step-by-step way. Any student majoring in English or history should have no problem learning this material! A full glossary helps students with the field
Focus on the Process of Science
Throughout, Ruddiman continually focuses readers on the way experts gather evidence and make conclusions based on rigorously adhering to the scientific method.
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William F. Ruddiman
Table of Contents
1. Natures Climatic Cycles
2. Wrong-Way Methane Trend
3. Wrong-Way Carbon Dioxide Trend
PART 2 Early Agriculture: Answer to the CO2 and CH4 Mysteries?
4. The Fertile Crescent and Europe
5. China and Southern Asia
6. The Americas
7. Africa, Australia, and Oceania PART 3 Debating a New Hypothesis
8. Early Farming and Per Capita Land Use
9. How Should Interglacial Gas Trends Be Compared?
10. Natural Versus Anthropogenic CH4 Sources: Closer Scrutiny
11. Natural Versus Anthropogenic CO2 Sources: Closer ScrutinyPART 4 How Science Moves Forward
12. Falsification
13. Paradigm Shifts
14. An Emerging Paradigm for the Anthropogenic Era?
PART 5 Early Human Effects on Climate
15. Is the Next Glaciation Overdue?
16. Other Climatic Effects of Early Land Clearance
17. The End of Northern Hemisphere Glaciations
PART 6 Small Steps Back Toward an Ice Age
18. The Little Ice Age
19. Were the Drops in CO2 and CH4 Natural?
20. Mass Human Mortality and CO2 Decreases
21. Effects of Humans on Short-Term Greenhouse-Gas Reductions
Epilogue
Glossary
Index
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William F. Ruddiman

Earth Transformed
First Edition| 2014
William F. Ruddiman
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