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001 2004062444
003 DLC
005 20070726083033.0
008 041025s2005 njuab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0691121648 (cloth : alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm56924704
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100 1 $aRuddiman, W. F.$q(William F.),$d1943-
245 10 $aPlows, plagues, and petroleum :$bhow humans took control of climate /$cWilliam F. Ruddiman.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2005.
300 $axiv, 202 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-196) and index.
505 0 $a1. Climate and human history -- 2. Slow going for a few million years -- 3. Linking earth's orbit to its climate -- 4. Orbital changes control ice-age cycles -- 5. Orbital changes control monsoon cycles -- 6. Stirrings of change -- 7. Early agriculture and civilization -- 8. Taking control of methane -- 9. Taking control of CO₂ -- 10. Have we delayed a glaciation? -- 11. Challenges and responses -- 12. But what about those CO₂ "wiggles"? -- 13. The horsemen of the apocalypse : which one? -- 14. Pandemics, CO₂, and climate -- 15. Greenhouse warming : tortoise and hare -- 16. Future warming : large or small? -- 17. From the past into the distant future -- 18. Global-change science and politics -- 19. Consuming earth's gifts
650 0 $aClimatology.
650 0 $aClimatic changes.
650 0 $aGlobal temperature changes.
650 0 $aGreenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2004062444-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2004062444-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2004062444-b.html