Ch. 1. Climate and human history
Ch. 2. Slow going for a few million years
Ch. 3. Linking earth's orbit to its climate
Ch. 4. Orbital changes control ice-age cycles
Ch. 5. Orbital changes control monsoon cycles
Ch. 6. Stirrings of change
Ch. 7. Early agriculture and civilization
Ch. 8. Taking control of methane
Ch. 9. Taking control of CO[subscript 2]
Ch. 10. Have we delayed a glaciation?
Ch. 11. Challenges and responses
Ch. 12. But what about those CO[subscript 2] "wiggles"?
Ch. 13. horsement of the apocalypse : which one?
Ch. 14. Pandemics, CO[subscript 2], and climate
Ch. 15. Greenhouse warming : tortoise and hare
Ch. 16. Future warming : large or small?
Ch. 17. From the past into the distant future.