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Note: Contents: Preface. - PART 1 FRAMEWORK OF CLIMATE SCIENCE. - 1 Overview of Climate Science. - Climate and Climate Change. - 1-1 Geologic Time. - 1-2 How This Book Is Organized. - Development of Climate Science. - 1-3 How Scientists Study Climate Change. - Overview of the Climate System. - 1-4 Components of the Climate System. - 1-5 Climate Forcing. - 1-6 Climate System Responses. - 1-7 Time Scales of Forcing versus Response. - 1-8 Response Rates and Interactions Within the Climate System. - 1-9 Feedbacks in the Climate System. - Tools Of Climate Science: Temperature Scales. - 2 Earth's Climate System Today. - Heating Earth. - 2-1 Incoming Solar Radiation. - 2-2 Receipt and Storage of Solar Heat. - 2-3 Heat Transformation. - Heat Transfer in Earth's Atmosphere. - 2-4 Overcoming Stable Layering in the Atmosphere. - 2-5 Tropical-Subtropical Atmospheric Circulation. - 2-6 Atmospheric Circulation at Middle and High Latitudes. - Heat Transfer in Earth's Oceans. - 2-7 The Surface Ocean. - 2-8 Deep-Ocean Circulation. - Ice on Earth. - 2-9 Sea Ice. - 2-10 Glacial Ice. - Earth's Biosphere. - 2-11 Response of the Biosphere to the Physical Climate System. - 2-12 Effects of the Biosphere on the Climate System. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: The Structure of Earth's Atmosphere. - Climate Interactions and Feedbacks: Albedo/Temperature. - Climate Interactions and Feedbacks: Water in the Climate System. - Climate Interactions and Feedbacks: Water Vapor. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: The Conolis Effect. - Climate Interactions and Feedbacks: Vegetation-Climate Feedbacks. - 3 Climate Archives, Oata, and Models. - Climate Archives. - 3-1 Types of Archives. - 3-2 Dating Climate Records. - 3-3 Climate Resolution. - Climate Data. - 3-4 Biotic Data. - 3-5 Geological and Geochemical Data. - Climate Models. - 3-6 Physical Climate Models. - 3-7 Geochemical (Mass Balance) Models. - PART II TECTONIC-SCALE CLIMATE CHANGE. - 4 CO2 and Long-term Climate. - Greenhouse Worlds. - The Faint Young Sun Paradox. - Carbon Exchanges between Rocks and the Atmosphere. - 4-1 Volcanic Input of Carbon from Rocks to the Atmosphere. - 4-2 Chemical Weathering Removal of CO2 from the Atmosphere. - Climate Factors That Control Chemical Weathering. - Chemical Weathering: Earth's Thermostat?. - Is Life the Ultimate Control on Earth's Thermostat?. - 4-3 The Gaia Hypothesis. - Climate Debate: A Snowball Earth?. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: The Organic Carbon Subcycle. - 5 Plate Tectonics and Climate. - Plate Tectonics. - 5-1 Structure and Composition of Tectonic Plates. - 5-2 Evidence of Past Plate Motions. - The Polar Position Hypothesis. - 5-3 Glaciations and Continental Positions since 500 Myr Ago. - Modeling Climate on the Supercontinent Pangaea. - 5-4 Input to the Model Simulation of Pangaean Climate. - 5-5 Output from the Model Simulation of Pangaean Climate. - Tectonic Control of CO2 Input: The BLAG Spreading Rate Hypothesis. - 5-6 Control of CO2 Input by Seafloor Spreading. - 5-7 Initial Evaluation of the BLAG Spreading Rate Hypothesis. - Tectonic Control of CO2 Removal: The Uplift Weathering Hypothesis. - 5-8 Rock Exposure and Chemical Weathering. - 5-3 Uplift and Chemical Weathering. - What Controls Chemical Weathering?. - 5-10 Weathering: Climate Forcing and Feedback. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: Brief Glatiation 430 Myr Ago. - 6 Greenhouse Earth. - What Explains Greenhouse Warmth 100 Myr Ago?. - 6-1 Model Simulations of a Greenhouse World. - 6-2 What Explains the Data-Model Mismatch?. - Sea Level Changes and Climate. - 6-3 Causes of Tectonic-Scale Changes in Sea Level. - 6-4 Effect of Sea Level Changes on Climate. - Asteroid Impacts. - Climate Interactions and Feedbacks: The Effect of CO2 on Climate. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: Calculating Changes in Sea Level. - 7 Back into the Icehouse: The Last 55 Million years. - Global Climate Change Since 55 Myr Ago. - 7-1 Evidence from Ice and Vegetation. - 7-2 Oxygen Isotope Data. - Why Did Global Climate Cool over the Last 55 Myr?. - 7-3 Evaluating the BLAG Spreading Rate Hypothesis. - 7-4 Evaluating the Uplift Weathering Hypothesis. - 7-5 Evaluating the Ocean Heat Transport Hypothesis. - 7-6 Causes of Brief Tectonic-Scale Climate Change. - Understanding and Predicting Tectonic Climate Change. - Tools Of Climate Science: Oxtygen Isotope Ratios (δ18O). - Climate Debate: The Timing of Uplift in Western North America. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: Is 87Sr/86Sr an Index of Chemical Weathering?. - PART III ORBITAL-SCALE CLIMATE CHANGE. - 8 Astronomical Control of Solar Radiation. - Earth's Orbit Today. - 8-1 Earth's Tilted Axis of Rotation and the Seasons. - 8-2 Earth's Eccentric Orbit: Changes in the Distance Between Earth and Sun. - Long-Term Changes in Earth's Orbit. - 8-3 Changes in Earth's Axial Tilt Through Time. - 8-4 Changes in Earth's Eccentric Orbit Through Time. - 8-5 Precession of Solstices and Equinoxes around Earth's Orbit. - Changes in Insolation Received on Earth. - 8-6 Insolation Changes by Month and Season. - 8-7 Insolation Changes According to Caloric Season. - Looking for Orbital-Scale Changes in Climate Records. - 8-8 Time Series Analysis. - 8-9 Aliasing of Climate Records. - 8-10 Tectonic-Scale Changes in Earth's Orbit. - Tools Of Climate Science: Cycles and Modulation. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: Earth's Precession as a Sine Wave. - 9 Insolation Control of Monsoons. - Monsoon Circulations. - 9-1 Orbital-Scale Control of Summer Monsoons. - Evidence of Orbital-Scale Changes in Summer Monsoons. - 3-2 "Stinky Muds" in the Mediterranean. - 9-3 Freshwater Diatoms in the Tropical Atlantic. - 9-4 Upwelling in the Equatorial Atlantic. - Refinements of the Orbital Monsoon Hypothesis. - 9-5 Lag of Monsoons Behind Summer Insolation. - 9-6 Clipped Monsoon Responses and Monsoon Harmonics. - Monsoon Forcing Earlier in Earth's History. - 8-7 Monsoons on Pangaea 200 Myr Ago. - 9-8 Joint Tectonic and Orbital Control of Monsoons. - 10 Insolation Control of Ice Sheets. - What Controls the Size of Ice Sheets?. - 10-1 Orbital-Scale Control of Ice Sheets. - The Milankovitch Theory. - Modeling the Behavior of Ice Sheets. - 10-2 Insolation Control of Ice Sheet Size. - 10-3 Ice Sheet Lags behind Summer Insolation Forcing. - 10-4 Delayed Bedrock Response Beneath Ice Sheets. - 10-5 Full Cycle of Ice Growth and Decay. - 10-6 Ice Slipping and Calving. - Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheet History. - 10-7 Conceptual Model: Evolution of Ice Sheet Cycles. - 10-8 Evidence from δ18O: How Ice Sheets Actually Evolved. - 10-9 Confirming Ice Volume Changes: Coral Reefs and Sea Level. - 10-10 Using Astronomical and δ18O Signals as a Chronometer. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: Ice Volume Response to Insolation. - Climate Debate: Antarctic Deglaciation 3 Myr Ago?. - Looking Deeper into Climate Science: Sea Level on Uplifting Islands. - 11 Orbital-Scale Changes in Carbon Dioxide and Methane. - Ice Cores. - 11-1 Drilling and Dating Ice Cores. - 11-2 Trapping Gases in the Ice. - Orbital-Scale Changes in Methane. - Orbital-Scale Changes in CO2. - 11-3 Physical Oceanographic Explanations of CO2 Changes. - 11-4 Orbital-Scale Carbon Reservoirs. - 11-5 Tracking Carbon through the Climate System. - 11-6 Can δ13C Evidence Detect Glacial Changes in Carbon Reservoirs?. - 11-7 Pumping of Carbon into the Deep Ocean during Glaciations. - 11-8 Changes in the Circulation of Deep Water during Glaciations. - Tools Of Climate Science: Carbon Isotope Ratios (δ13C). - Climate Debate: Do Winds Fertilize the Glacial Ocean?. - 12 Orbital-Scale Interactions in the Climate System. - Orbital-Scale Forcing and Response Revisited. - Ice-Driven Climate Responses. - 12-1 Ice-Driven Responses in High Northern Latitudes. - 12-2 Orbital Cycles in Regions Remote fro