Travel Guide To Climate Change: How Milankovitch Cycles Shape Earth’s Climate and Ice Ages (Sustainability and Human Ecology Book 2)

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What controls Earth’s great ice ages—and why do small changes in our planet’s orbit produce such enormous climatic consequences?

Travel Guide to Climate Change explores the astronomical rhythms that have helped shape Earth’s climate across hundreds of thousands of years. At the center of the story are the Milankovitch cycles: changes in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession that alter the seasonal and geographic distribution of sunlight reaching Earth.

But orbital forcing is only the beginning.

Ice sheets, oceans, greenhouse gases, sea ice, vegetation, dust, and other feedbacks determine how the climate system responds. This revised edition follows that interaction from the classic 41,000-year glacial world through the Mid-Pleistocene Transition and into the still-debated 100,000-year problem.

Drawing on paleoclimate records, orbital calculations, ice-core evidence, marine sediments, climate models, and modern research, the book examines both the strengths and the limits of Milankovitch theory. It explains why orbital cycles pace major climate changes without acting as a simple planetary thermostat—and why natural orbital variability cannot account for the rapid warming of the industrial era.

Written for scientifically curious readers without sacrificing technical rigor, this book provides a clear guide to:

Milankovitch cycles and orbital forcingIce ages and interglacial periodsPaleoclimate proxies and geological evidenceThe 41,000-year and 100,000-year climate cyclesThe Mid-Pleistocene TransitionIce-sheet and carbon-cycle feedbacksNatural climate variability versus modern anthropogenic warming

A journey through orbital mechanics, deep time, and climate science, revealing how subtle celestial changes can help reshape an entire planet.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CD41CTQB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kapodistrian Academy of Science
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 29, 2023
Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.4 MB
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 213 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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