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Preface Part I Framework of Climate Science | |
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Overview of Climate Science Climate and Climate Change | |
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Geologic Time | |
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How This Book Is Organized Development of Climate Science | |
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How Scientists Study Climate Change Overview of the Climate System | |
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Components of the Climate System | |
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Climate Forcing | |
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Climate System Responses | |
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Time Scales of Forcing versus Response | |
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Differing Response Rates and Climate-System Interactions | |
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Feedbacks in the Climate System Tools of Climate Science Temperature Scales Climate Interactions and Feedbacks: Positive and Negative Feedbacks | |
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Climate Archives, Data, and Models Climate Archives, Dating, and Resolution | |
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Types of Archives | |
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Dating Climate Records | |
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Climatic Resolution Climatic Data | |
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Biotic Data | |
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Geological and Geochemical Data Climate Models | |
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Physical Climate Models | |
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Geochemical Models Part II Tectonic-Scale Climate Change | |
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CO2 and Long-Term Climate Greenhouse Worlds Faint Young Sun Paradox Carbon Exchanges between Rocks and the Atmosphere | |
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Volcanic Input of Carbon from Rocks to the Atmosphere | |
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Removal of CO2 from the Atmosphere by Chemical Weathering Climatic Factors That Control Chemical Weathering Is Chemical Weathering Earth’s Thermostat? | |
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Greenhouse Role of Water Vapor Is Life the Ultimate Control on Earth’s Termostat? | |
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Gaia Hypothesis Was There a “Thermostat Malfunction”? A Snowball Earth? Looking Deeper into Climate Science Organic Carbon Cycle | |
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Plate Tectonics and Long-Term Climate Plate Tectonics | |
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Structure and Composition of Tectonic Plates | |
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Evidence of Past Plate Motions Polar Position Hypothesis | |
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Glaciations and Continental Positions since 500 Myr Ago Modeling Climate on the Supercontinent Pangaea | |
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Input to the Model Simulation of Climate on Pangaea | |
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Output from the Model Simulation of Climate on Pangaea Tectonic Control of CO2 Input: BLAG Spreading-Rate Hypothesis | |
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Control of CO2 Input by Seafloor Spreading | |
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Initial Evaluation of the BLAG Spreading Rate Hypothesis Tectonic Control of CO2 Removal: Uplift-Weathering Hypothesis | |
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Rock Exposure and Chemical Weathering | |
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Case Study: The Wind River Basin of Wyoming | |
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Uplift and Chemical Weathering | |
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Case Study: Weathering in the Amazon Basin | |
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Weathering: Both a Climate Forcing and a Feedback? Looking Deeper into Climate Science Brief Glaciation 440 Myr Ago | |
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Greenhouse Climate What Explains the Warmth 100 Myr Ago? | |
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Model Simulations of the Cretaceous Greenhouse | |
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What Explains the Data-Model Mismatch? | |
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Relevance of Past Greenhouse Climate to the Future Sea Level Changes and Climate | |
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Causes of Tectonic-Scale Changes in Sea Level | |
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Effect of Changes in Sea Level on Climate Asteroid Impact Large and Abrupt Greenhouse Episode near 50 Myr Ago Looking Deeper into Climate Science Calculating Changes in Sea Level | |
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From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Last 50 Million Years Global Climate Change Since 50 Myr Ago | |
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Evidence from I | |