Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate /
Willam F. Ruddiman ; with a new afterword by the author
- First Princeton Science Library edition
- xiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Originally published in 2005
William Ruddiman explores a scientific mystery - the fact that methane concentrations in the atmosphere have risen for the last 5000 years, when all indications are that it should have fallen. He attributes this to the involvement of humans
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Climatology Climatic changes Global temperature changes Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric Greenhouse gases--Environmental aspects