Paleoclimate /
Michael L. Bender.
- xi, 306 pages ; 21 cm.
- Princeton primers in climate .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Earth's climate system -- The faint young sun -- Precambrian glaciations -- Regulation of the Earth system and global temperature -- The late Paleozoic ages -- Equable climates of the Mesozoic and Paleogene -- The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum -- The long cooling of the Cenozoic -- The origin of Northern Hemisphere glaciation and the Pleistocene ice ages -- Rapid climate change during the last glacial period -- The Holocene -- Anthropogenic global warming in the context of paleoclimate.