vii Contents Preface, xiii 1 Background and History, 3 The Climatic Record, 4 Weather and Climate, 4 Climate through the Millennia, 5 Huronian Glaciation, 7 Snowball Earth, 8 Andean-Saharan, 8 Late Paleozoic, 9 Quaternary, 9 The Tools of Paleoclimatology, 10 Carbon Dating, 10 Ice Cores, 12 Boreholes, 12 Dendrochronology, 13 Pollen Analysis, 15 Causes of Climate Change, 16 Milanković Theory, 17
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