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Susanne Simor
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A brief History of Climate

Karl-Heinz Ludwig

From the Origin of the Earth until Today

An overview of climate history and its effects on earth and mankind, presented in a generally understandable way for a broad audience.

In this book you will learn in a clear and concise form what the difference is between weather and climate, which factors determine the climate, how the ozone layer protects the earth, why the shifting of the continents changes the climate, why mass extinctions occurred again and again, how the glaciation of Greenland creates a dessert in Africa, why long-term climate predictions are fundamentally uncertain, how mankind has changed the global climate for two centuries, why greenhouse gases cause hurricanes and what we can do about climate change.

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Published by C.H.Beck

Main content page count: 216 Pages

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"The book is recommended to all those laymen who want to obtain sound and knowledgeable information about the complicated system of climate."


"Here we are presented with the entire climate history from the Palaeozoic era to the 21st century, which is considered so crucial: as popular as it is scarce."