16. Putting it all together. 2. The great cooling -- 3. Ice age cycles -- 4. Trace gases warm the planet -- 5. Changing geography through time -- 6. Mapping past climates -- 7. Into the icehouse -- 8. Greenhouse gas theory matures -- 9. Measuring and modelling CO₂ back through time -- 10. The pulse of the earth -- 11. Numerical climate models and case histories -- 12. Solving the ice age mystery : the deep ocean solution -- 13. Solving the ice age mystery : the ice core tale -- 14. The Holocene interglacial -- 15. The late Holocene and the athropocene -- 16. Putting it all together.
Summary:
"Information about the climate of the past is referred to as palaeoclimate data (American spelling drops the second 'a'). It relies on the use of proxies of climate variables to estimate the past behaviour of Earth's ocean-atmosphere-ice system. While proxy measures have their drawbacks, the fact that they mutually support one another provides a measure of confidence in palaeoclimatology"-- Provided by publisher.
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