Climatic Change: Evidence, Causes, and Effects

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1953
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Edition: 5th printing 1970. Reprint 2014
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
1. ON CLIMATE AND LIFE
2. CLIMATE AND RACE
3. CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION
4. ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC CIRCULATION AS FACTORS IN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CHANGES OF CLIMATE
5. RADIATION BALANCE OF THE EARTH AS A FACTOR IN CLIMATIC CHANGE
6. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF GEOGRAPHICAL CAUSES OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
7. ON THE CAUSES OF THE ICE AGES
8. SOLAR VARIATION AS AN EXPLANATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
9. INTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SUN AND CLIMATIC CHANGES
10. INTERSTELLAR MATTER AND THE SOLAR CONSTANT
11. THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGES
12. THE POLAR MOTION AND CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S ORBIT
13. EVIDENCE FROM GLACIAL GEOLOGY AS TO CLIMATIC VARIATIONS
14. GEOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF LATE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATES
15. PEDOGENIC CRITERIA OF CLIMATIC CHANGES
16. CLIMATIC CHANGES AND RADIOISOTOPE DATING
17. TREE-RING EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATIC CHANGES
18. CLIMATIC CHANGES AS INTERPRETED FROM METEOROLOGICAL DATA
19. CLIMATIC CHANGES OR CYCLES?
20. EVIDENCE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE IN THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF PLANT LIFE
21. THE RECORD OF CLIMATIC CHANGES AS REVEALED BY VERTEBRATE PALEOECOLOGY
22. PALEOLIMNOLOGY AND CLIMATE