A Brief History of the Earth's Climate: Everyone's Guide to The Science of Climate Change

(Might be a little heavy if you don’t have a decent science background)Steven Earle does an excellent job in analyzing the history of Earth’s Climate and Organisms. He explores the 5 previous known extinctions and compares them to present day.He looks at climate through the lens of natural processes:Positive Feedback LoopsCycles of Glaciation and Glacier RecessionChanges in Earth’s OrbitChanges in the Sun’s EnergyChanges in Earth’s TiltTectonic Processes and Volcanic ActivityOcean Temperature and SalinityAsteroid ImpactsHuman Population Growth and TechnologyGHG Emissions from Human and Non-Human SourcesHis analysis is thorough and leaves the reader with one inescapable conclusion - the planet is warming and it is due to human energy consumption.

A good and comprehensive book about climate.

This is an extremely researched and well-written book on climate, its causes, and about the current climate change -- global warming. It is informative and interesting at the same time.

I've been looking around for a book on climate science I could recommend to people without much formal science training.I've found one.In 164 pages Steven Earle, a college teacher of Earth Science for about 40 years answers questions like:What are oxygen and nitrogen not greenhouse heat trapping gasses while carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases are?What are tipping points and why is positive feedback worse than negative feedback?If there are both natural and human caused influences on climate how do we know the human fingerprint is on the current trigger?Really well written and the 40 years of answering student questions has prepared him well to explain a subject a lot of people avoid pursuing beyond stories in the media.

I learned a lot from this book and found the explanations sufficiently detailed to be enlightening, but not overwhelmingly complex for someone who isn't a scientist. I was looking for a book that discussed climate changes with a historical context in order to gain some perspective on the significance of the current climate shifts. A Brief History of the Earth's Climate was just what I was looking for. I am very grateful to the author for writing it.

great book! easy to read without jargon. I learn a lot of nature from this book.

The subtitle should have been the title. The :"history" is absolutely minimal.

This is just another IPCC-based propaganda book.

The earth has experienced many types of climates over the 4.5 billion years, as illustrated by its rocks, glaciers, sea bottom sediments, and other physical traces of the past.It you are looking for a book, written by a scientist, of under 200 pages that provides a good, clearly written primer on earth’s climate, add this book to your reading list.Steven Earle explores, step-by-step, the various earth’s processes (e.g., volcanic eruptions, plate tectonics) that impact climate. As nothing is new to the earth, except us homo sapiens, past climates can give us many clues concerning the future.No preachy stuff. Just the well written facts with supporting evidence.

This book is an excellent primer on climatology. Marvellously readable, very informative and up-to-date.

A good summary of aspects of relevant climate issues. Easy read for lay person. For more academic reading there maybe other texts

Katharine Hayhoe clearly knows climate change and also presents other aspects of the debate very well.

Presented from a voice of reason and knowledge..., he also apparently tries to practice it.Our human-caused perhaps end-of-the-world scenario, is well written in this fact-filled enjoyable presentation filled with facts, charts, and diagrams.However, he misses the three by far the largest human-made causes..., having children, being a meat eater, and having a first-world income.Still, a frightening must-read book.