Download or read book Earth's Climate written by William F. Ruddiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Earth's Climate: Past and Future" works as either a nonmajors introduction to Earth system science or climate change, or as a majors/graduate-level overview of the processes and techniques in climate science. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective by a researcher/instructor in the field, the text summarizes the major lessons to be learned from 550 million years of climate changes, as a way of evaluating the climatological impact on and by humans in this century. The book also looks ahead to possible effects during the next several centuries of fossil fuel use.