Table of Contents
Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Overview
Lee C. Gerhard, William E. Harrison, and Bernold M. "Bruno" Hanson

Part I–Climate Drivers

Chapter 1

Solar Forcing of Earth's Climate
Alfred H. Pekarek

Chapter 2

Distribution of Oceans and Continents: A Geological Constraint on Global Climate Variability
Lee C. Gerhard and William E. Harrison

Chapter 3

Recent Past and Future of the Global Carbon Cycle
Fred T. Mackenzie, A. Lerman, and L. M. B. Ver

Chapter 4

Are We Headed for a Thermohaline Catastrophe?
Wallace S. Broecker

Part II–Methods of Estimating Ancient Temperature

Chapter 5

Stable Isotopes and their Relationship to Temperature as Recorded in Low-Latitude Ice Cores
Lonnie G. Thompson

Chapter 6

Century-Scale Variation of Seafloor Temperatures Inferred From Offshore Borehole Geothermal Data
Seiichi Nagihara and Kelin Wang

Chapter 7

Sclerosponges: Potential High-Resolution Recorders of Marine Paleotemperatures
Gary B. Hughes and Charles W. Thayer

Chapter 8

Perspectives on Quaternary Beetles and Climate Change
Allan C. Ashworth

Chapter 9

Using Fossil Leaves for the Reconstruction of Cenozoic Paleoatmospheric C0₂ Concentrations
Wolfram M. Kürschner, Friederike Wagner, David L. Dilcher, and Henk Visscher

Part III–Natural Variability and Studies of Past Temperature Changes

Chapter 10

Rate and Magnitude of Past Global Climate Changes
John P. Bluemle, Joseph M. Sable, and Wibjörn Karlén

Chapter 11

The Search for Patterns in Ice-Core Temperature Curves
John C. Davis and Geoffrey C. Bohling

Chapter 12

Sea-Level Changes in the Baltic Sea: Interrelation of Climatic and Geologic Processes
Jan Harff, Alexander Frischbutter, Reinhard Lampe, and Michael Meyer

Chapter 13

Coral Reefs and Shoreline Dipsticks
E. A. Shinn

Part IV–Policy Drivers

Chapter 14

Microbial Lime-Mud Production and Its Relation to Climate Change
K.K. Yates and L.L. Robbins

Chapter 15

Geological Sequestration of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide: Applicability and Current Issues
Stefan Bachu

Chapter 16

Near-Term Climate Predictions Using Ice-Core Data from Greenland
Sergey R. Kotov

Chapter 17

Carbon-Dioxide-Induced Global Warming: A Skeptic's View of Potential Climate Change
Sherwood B. Idso

Chapter 18

Potential Impact and Effects of Climate Change
David A. L. Jenkins

Epilogue

Index