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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128225688 ISBN 13: 9780128225684

Publisher: Elsevier, 2022

Synopsis

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

• 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

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Climate Change and Life: The Complex Co-evolution of Climate and Life on Earth, and Beyond covers in broad brushes the critical tectonic and biogeochemical cycles that drive climate and shape the modern world. It also compares the history of Earth to the histories of Venus and Mars, including new findings of Martian climate change. Climate Change and Life is multidisciplinary and will instruct readers on the range of extremes in climate and biogeochemical cycling that shape life on Earth. Topics covered include climate drivers on Earth (atmospheric gases, non-gaseous particulates in the atmosphere, etc.), various techniques to assess past climates, mass extension drivers, as well as predictions about the future and climate change mitigation strategies. Climate Change and Life takes a long view on climate change and evolution while also focusing on the defining moments in Earth history where critical thresholds and events occur. Climate scientists, earth scientists, environmental scientists, researchers in all other areas of science that are related to climate change will find value in the research presented in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128225688
• ISBN 13: 9780128225684
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Filippelli Gabriel M.