Climate of the Past, Present and Future A Scientific Debate

About this book

The book offers a review of what science has to say about climate change, from 800,000 years ago to the next glaciation, including an analysis of its effects on past human societies. Critical of the IPCC's version of climate change, Climate of the Past, Present and Future highlights the importance of natural factors in addition to the suggested anthropogenic effects. It also evaluates the role of greenhouse gases in climate change from the distant past to the present day, and presents detailed evidence of periodical changes in solar activity associated with climate changes in the past.

Based on published scientific literature and written to be easily understood by non-specialists, the book includes multiple specially created illustrations supporting the scientific arguments. This one-stop reference resource is intended for graduate students and general readers with some scientific background who are interested in the climate science not well reflected in other books and IPCC reports and only available in specialized journals. It is a book designed to foster scientific debate on a question of global interest.

Contents

1 Introduction
2 The Glacial Cycle
3 The Dansgaard-Oeschger Cycle
4 Holocene climatic variability
5 The 2500-year Bray cycle
6 The effect of abrupt climate change on human societies of the past
7 The elusive 1500-year Holocene cycle
8 Centennial to millennial solar cycles
9 Greenhouse gases and climate change
10 Natural climate change mechanisms
11 Modern Global Warming
12 21st century climate change
13 The next glaciation

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