17 Chapter 9: The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) Event Part 9.1. An Important Discovery Part 9.2. Global Consequences of the PETM Part 9.3. Two Hypotheses for the Cause of the PETM Part 9.4. Rates of Onset and Duration of Event Part 9.5. Global Warming Today and Lessons from the PETM References
18 Chapter 10: Glaciation of Antarctica Part 10.1. Initial Evidence Part 10.2. Evidence for Global Change Part 10.3. Mountain Building, Weathering, CO2 and Climate Part 10.4. Legacy of the Oi1 Event: The Development of the Psychrosphere References
19 Chapter 11: Antarctic Climate Variability in the Neogene Part 11.1. What Do We Think We Know About the History of Antarctic Climate? Part 11.2. What is Antarctica's Geographic and Geologic Context? Part 11.3. Selecting Drillsites to Best Answer our Questions Part 11.4. What Sediment Facies are Common on the Antarctic Margin? Part 11.5. The BIG Picture of ANDRILL 1‐B References
20 Chapter 12: Pliocene Warmth as an Analog for Our Future Part 12.1. The Last 5 Million Years Part 12.2. Pliocene Latitudinal Temperature Gradient Part 12.3. Estimates of Pliocene CO2 Part 12.4. Sea Level Past, Present, and Future References
21 Chapter 13: Climate, Climate Change, and Life Part 13.1. Initial Ideas Part 13.2. The Long View: “Precambrian” and Phanerozoic Life and Climate Part 13.3. Examples of Cenozoic Terrestrial Evolution and Climate Connections Part 13.4. Examples of Cenozoic Marine Biotic Evolution and Climate Connections Part 13.5. Humanity, Climate, and Life Part 13.6. Humanity and Future Climate: At a Tipping Point References
22 Chapter 14: Climate Change and Civilization Part 14.1. Climate Change Here and Now Part 14.2. Evidence of Climatic Stress on Ancient Maya Civilization Part 14.3. The Precipitation Record of the North American Southwest: The Physical Record and Human Response References
23 Index
List of Tables
1 Book Introduction to the Second Edition for Students and InstructorsTABLE 1. Chapter alignment to scientific content, skills, and USGCRP (2009) c...
2 Chapter 1TABLE 1.1. Selected major paleoclimate archives and the proxy data they conta...
3 Chapter 2TABLE 2.1. Seafloor cores.TABLE 2.2. Smear slide composition and textural data, plus presence/absence o...
4 Chapter 3TABLE 3.1. A simple example of the changes in the numbers of atoms of the par...TABLE 3.2. 40Ar/40K results for five samples of basalt from Jokuldalur, Iceland (...TABLE 3.3. 230Th/234U activity ratios as a function of depth in speleothem BTVC4 ...TABLE 3.4. Corrected ages as a function of depth in speleothem BTVC4 from Cav...
5 Chapter 4TABLE 4.1. Estimates for the age of ocean crust (basement) and the age of the...
6 Chapter 5TABLE 5.1. The table displaysrows of samples and the depth of those samples i...TABLE 5.2. The table displaysrows of samples and the depth of those samples i...TABLE 5.3. Calcareous nannofossil datums, ages, and depths from Hole 1208A.TABLE 5.4. Calcareous nannofossil datums, ages, and depths from Hole 1208A Sh...TABLE 5.5. Calcareous nannofossil datums, ages, and depths from Hole 999 in t...
7 Chapter 6TABLE 6.1. The four most abundant greenhouse gases.TABLE 6.2. Earth system feedback factors.
8 Chapter 8TABLE 8.1. Data summary.
9 Chapter 9TABLE 9.1. Synthesis of observations for PETM.TABLE 9.2. Published estimates for the time interval, carbon accumulation, and...
10 Chapter 10TABLE 10.1. Paleoecologic preferences of the species or genera ofcalcareous n...TABLE 10.2. Synthesis of observations.
11 Chapter 11TABLE 11.1. General interpretation of Oligocene–Holocene Antarctic climate, as...
12 Chapter 12TABLE 12.1. Estimatedpotential maximum sea level rise from the total melting ...TABLE 12.2. Elevations of major coastal cities in the U.S. (based on major ai...
13 Chapter 14TABLE 14.1. Vulnerability factors and their indicators (Chen et al. 2015).TABLE 14.2. Readiness factors and their indicators (Chen et al. 2015).