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

ISBN-13: 9780128225684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Gabriel M. Filippelli

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.