"As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future."-- "A vivid tour of Earth's Big Five mass extinctions, the past worlds lost with each, and what they all can tell us about...

"Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: history. The study of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the past ten years, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal...

"This book is an unorthodox ground-breaking scientific study on natural climate change and its contribution to ongoing multi-centennial global warming. The book abrupt glacial (Dansgaard-Oeschger) events; Holocene climate variability; the 1500-year cycle; solar activity; volcanic eruptions; greenhouse gases; and energy transport. Applying the scientific method to available evidence reveals that some of these phenomena are profoundly misunderstood...

"An introduction to paleoclimatology and ice cores for kids, connecting the methods that scientists use to study our climate history with future climate change solutions"--