Earth's Climate: Past and Future

At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, William Ruddiman's breakthrough text returns in a thoroughly updated new edition. It offers a clear, engaging, objective portrait of the current state of climate science, including compelling recent findings on anthropogenic global warming and important advances in understanding past climates.

• The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
• Humans in the Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Studies
• Earth System History
• The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy
• Key Concepts in Geomorphology
• Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
• An Introduction to Conservation Biology
• Structural Geology
• Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, 3rd Edition
• The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea