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5 reviews
William F. Ruddiman

W. H. Freeman, 2007

A long-awaited textbook......
I read this book twice, and wished I had had something like this available to me a few years ago, when I started venturing out into the unnumbered feedback loops, geochemical vagaries and regional idiosyncracies of Quaternary paleoclimatology, trying to form a general picture of it all. But this text isn't just about the Quaternary, mind you, this is a complete introduction to the main issues in ...

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

19 reviews
William F. Ruddiman

Princeton University Press, 2007

Interesting Hypothesis without hype
As stated more eloquently in other reviews, this book puts forth the hypothesis that human activities have led to an interruption in the glacial/interglacial cycle that has been occurring in the Northern hemisphere over the last 3-4 million years. The author's treatment of the Milankovich orbital cycles will be instructive to those who have yet to be exposed to this data. It was refreshing to ...

Earth Inquiry: Long-term Climate Change
American Geological Institute, William F. Ruddiman, ...

W.H. Freeman & Company, 2002

Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change

Springer, 1997

A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most ...