Chapter Seventeen FROM THE PAST INTO THE DISTANT FUTURE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. PREFACE xiii
5. PART ONE What Has Controlled Earth’s Climate?
6. WHAT HAS CONTROLLED EARTH’S CLIMATE? 3
7. Chapter One. CLIMATE AND HUMAN HISTORY 5
8. PART TWO Nature in Control
9. NATURE IN CONTROL 15
10. Chapter Two. SLOW GOING FOR A FEW MILLION YEARS 17
11. Chapter Three. LINKING EARTH’S ORBIT TO ITS CLIMATE 25
12. Chapter Four. ORBITAL CHANGES CONTROL ICE-AGE CYCLES 35
13. Chapter Five. ORBITAL CHANGES CONTROL MONSOON CYCLES 46
14. Chapter Six. STIRRINGS OF CHANGE 55
15. PART THREE Humans Begin to Take Control
16. HUMANS BEGIN TO TAKE CONTROL 63
17. Chapter Seven. EARLY AGRICULTURE AND CIVILIZATION 65
18. Chapter Eight. TAKING CONTROL OF METHANE 76
19. Chapter Nine. TAKING CONTROL OF CO2 84
20. Chapter Ten. HAVE WE DELAYED A GLACIATION? 95
21. Chapter Eleven. CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES 106
22. PART FOUR Disease Enters the Picture
23. DISEASE ENTERS THE PICTURE 117
24. Chapter Twelve. BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE CO2 “WIGGLES”? 119
25. Chapter Thirteen. THE HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE: WHICH ONE? 127
26. Chapter Fourteen. PANDEMICS, CO2, AND CLIMATE 139
27. PART FIVE Humans in Control
28. HUMANS IN CONTROL 149
29. Chapter Fifteen. GREENHOUSE WARMING: TORTOISE AND HARE 151
30. Chapter Sixteen. FUTURE WARMING: LARGE OR SMALL? 159
31. Chapter Seventeen FROM THE PAST INTO THE DISTANT FUTURE 169
32. Epilogue
33. EPILOGUE 177
34. Chapter Eighteen GLOBAL-CHANGE SCIENCE AND POLITICS 179
35. Chapter Nineteen CONSUMING EARTH’S GIFTS 190
36. AFTERWORD TO THE PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION 195
37. BIBLIOGRAPHY 215
38. FIGURE SOURCES AND CREDITS 219
39. INDEX 223