Meteorology & Climatology
- The Discovery of Global Warming, revised and expanded edition
- Spencer R. Weart
- In 2001 an international panel of climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion was the story Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. The award-winning book is now revised and expanded to reflect the latest science.
- Paperback 2008
- El Niño, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America
- Edited by Daniel H. Sandweiss
- Edited by Jeffrey Quilter
- Contributions by Brian Billman
- Contributions by David Hodell
- Contributions by Gary Huckleberry
- Contributions by David Keefer
- Contributions by Kirk A. Maasch
- Contributions by Paul Mayewski
- Contributions by Michael Moseley
- Contributions by James B. Richardson
- Contributions by Paul Roscoe
- Contributions by Payson D. Sheets
- Contributions by S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson
- Contributions by Jason Yaeger
- This book summarizes research on the nature of El Niño events in the Americas and details specific historic and prehistoric patterns in Peru and elsewhere.
- Hardcover 2008
- Ice Ages
- John Imbrie
- Katherine Palmer Imbrie
- This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution to the ice age mystery originated when the National Science Foundation organized the CLIMAP project to study changes in the earth's climate over the past 700,000 years. One of the goals was to produce a map of the earth during the last ice age. Scientists examined cores of sediment from the Indian Ocean bed and deciphered a continuous history for the past 500,000 years. Their work ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice ages.
- Paperback