1. Introduction -- 2. The great cooling -- 3. Ice age cycles -- 4. Trace gases warm the planet -- 5. Moving continents and dating rocks -- 6. Mapping past climates -- 7. Into the icehouse -- 8. The greenhouse gas theory matures -- 9. Measuring and modelling CO₂ back through time -- 10. The pulse of the earth -- 11. Numerical climate models and case histories -- 12. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the deep-ocean solution -- 13. Solving the Ice Age mystery : the ice core tale -- 14. The Holocene interglacial -- 15. Medieval warming, the Little Ice Age, and the sun -- 16. Putting it all together.
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