Chapter 3. Long-Term Climate Stability

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Part I: Introduction
5. Chapter 1. Past Th inking about Earth-Like Planets and Life 3
6. Part II: Our Habitable Planet Earth
7. Chapter 2. Critical Updates on How Planets Are Built 17
8. Chapter 3. Long-Term Climate Stability 32
9. Chapter 4. More Wrinkles in Earth’s Climate History 57
10. Chapter 5. Runaway Glaciation and “Snowball Earth” 80
11. Part III: Limits to Planetary Habitability
12. Chapter 6. Runaway Greenhouses and the Evolution of Venus’ Atmosphere 99
13. Chapter 7. The Future Evolution of Earth 116
14. Chapter 8. The Martian Climate Puzzle 125
15. Chapter 9. Is the Earth Rare? 147
16. Chapter 10. Habitable Zones around Stars 171
17. Part IV: How to Find Another Earth
18. Chapter 11. Indirect Detection of Planets around Other Stars 197
19. Chapter 12. Finding and Characterizing Planets by Using Transits 221
20. Chapter 13. Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets 239
21. Chapter 14. The Spectroscopic Search for Life 258
22. Chapter 15. Prospects for the More Distant Future 284
23. Afterword to the Paperback Edition 299
24. Notes 305
25. Index 323