Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Setting the stage -- 1. Fast forward -- 2. Pointers to the past -- pt. 2. Reading the record -- 3. Going to Greenland -- 4. The icy archives : ice sheets and glaciers -- 5. Ice age through the ice age -- 6. How cold of old? -- 7. Dust in the wind -- 8. Tiny bubbles in the ice -- pt. 3. Crazy climates -- 9. The Saurian sauna -- 10. The solar system swing -- 11. Dancing to the orbital band -- 12. What the worms turned -- pt. 4. Why the weirdness? -- 13. How climate works -- 14. A chaotic conveyor? -- 15. Shoving the system -- pt. 5. Coming craziness? -- 16. Fuelish -- 17. Down the road -- 18. An ice-core view of the future.
