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FURTHER READING
Bryant, E. (1997) Climate Process and Change , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The
subject of climate change from an unusual perspective. The author is a global warming sceptic
and offers alternative views from those available in many texts. Useful for examples.
Drake, F. (2000) Global Warming . London: Arnold. A recent text aimed at undergraduate level for
those interested in both an explanation of the physical principles behind the greenhouse effect
and the policy implications of global warming. Written for non-mathematicians but goes into
reasonable depth.
Goodess, C. M., Palutikof, J. P., and Davies, T. D. (1992) The Nature and Causes of Climate
Change , London: Belhaven Press. Intermediate to advanced text about the causes of climatic
change. It also offers suggestions on future climate, taking natural and anthropogenic factors
into account.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001) Climate Change 2001: the scientific basis,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Latest update of the scientific assessment of climate
change. Technical, but authorative, statement of current views about the nature of currents
climate change.
Imbrie, J., and Imbrie, K. P. (1979) Ice Ages: solving the mystery , London: Macmillan. A history of
ideas about the origins of recent Ice Ages. Provides a clear account of the Milankovitch effect,
though it gives the impression that it must be the dominant mechanism and other possibilities
are subordinate, hence a little dated.
Lowe, J. J., and Walker, M. J. C. (1997) Reconstructing Quaternary Environments , second edition,
Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman. An excellent, recently updated, advanced text covering the
techniques of reconstructing Quaternary environments. It provides considerable detail about
each technique together with an extensive bibliography.
Wilson, R. C. L., Drury, S. A., and Chapman, J. L. (2000) The Great Ice Age , London, Routledge.
A recent addition to the literature on the Quaternary Ice Age that will prove a useful source of
material at the intermediate level.