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Climate Change and Life

The Complex Co-evolution of Climate and Life on Earth, and Beyond

  • 1st Edition - November 16, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gabriel M. Filippelli
  • Language: English

Explores the deep connections between climate change and the evolution and extinction patterns of life on Earth Climate Change and Life covers the critical tectonic and biogeo… Read more

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Description

Explores the deep connections between climate change and the evolution and extinction patterns of life on Earth Climate Change and Life covers the critical tectonic and biogeochemical cycles that drive climate and shape the modern world. It also compares the climate histories of Earth, Venus and Mars, and explores the limits of habitability in the Universe. This book is multidisciplinary and will instruct readers on the range of extremes in climate and biogeochemical cycling that shape life on Earth. Topics covered include the atmospheric and orbital controls of climate, how we measure past climate change, major evolutionary events, mass extinctions, the evolution of humans and their increasing impact on global climate, and future climate and the fate of global ecosystems. Climate Change and Life takes a long view on climate and evolution while also focusing on the defining moments in Earth history when critical thresholds and events occur. Scientists and students alike interested in climate change, earth and environmental sciences, and other areas related to climate change will find value in the concepts and examples presented in this book.
  • Examines the link between climate change and extinctions in the geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
  • Explores the concept of ecological resilience, the principal reason why the Earth has remained continuously inhabited by organisms for almost four billion years
  • Discusses how the ongoing influences of climate change will continue to shape a planet that will head toward extremes

Key features

  • Examines the link between climate change and extinctions in the geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
  • Explores the concept of ecological resilience, the principal reason why the Earth has remained continuously inhabited by organisms for almost four billion years
  • Discusses how the ongoing influences of climate change will continue to shape a planet that will head toward extremes

Readership

Climate scientists, earth scientists, environmental scientists, researchers in all other areas of science that are related to climate change (agriculture, ecology, oceanography, etc.) Policymakers, risk assessment industry

Table of contents

I. Earth over the past 4.5 billion years—a brief history
II. Climate drivers on Earth
III. Early Earth as a cradle for life
IV. Oxygen accumulation and the first major life-climate interactions
V. The not-so-boring billion
VI. Snowball Earth and the most extreme climate states that the Earth has experienced
VII. Emergence of land plants and the formation of the Earth’s Critical Zone
VIII. Massive extinction drivers and climate impacts
IX. From Greenhouse to Ice-House: the co-evolution of life and climate through the Cenozoic
X. Climate and Humans

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 17, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Gabriel M. Filippelli

Dr. Gabriel Filippelli is a Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. Filippelli is a Biogeochemist with broad training in climate change in marine and terrestrial systems. Filippelli has published broadly, including publications in Science, Nature, and Geology as well as in specialty journals and in popular press. He has personally directed over $9M of research funding over his career. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the journal GeoHealth, published by the American Geophysical Union. Filippelli is a Fellow of the International Association of Geochemistry, has been a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Newcastle (Australia), and a National Academy of Sciences Jefferson Fellow, where he served as a Senior Science Advisor for the State Department, with a policy portfolio including Antarctic climate change.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Earth Sciences and Director, Center for Urban Health, Indiana University, USA

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