How rice and peas kept us warm for a few millennia

Article Abstract:

William F. Ruddiman, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, puts forward the argument that, 8,000 years ago, the agricultural activities of humans started a process of global warming that may have staved off an ice age. Ruddiman makes the argument in his book "Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans took Control of Climate".

Causes of, Natural history, Works, Ruddiman, William F.

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We need a change of climate to survive

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the problems facing research into and political debate of global warming and the steps that need to be undertaken to address the issue. It is argued that it will take more than just scientists to come up with solutions to global warming and that climate change is the most deeply geopolitical issue ever faced by humanity.

Political aspects

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Fossils forecast a global scorcher

Article Abstract:

The renaissance in paleobotany will inform debate on climate change. We are recognising hat fossil plants are tachometers of past global change and that plants are a geological force of nature.

Paleobotany

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