Experimenting on a Small Planet : A History of Scientific Discoveries, a Future of Climate Change and Global Warming - Hay, William W.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Preface -- Introduction -- Intermezzo I. A Slightly Unusual Family -- The Language Of Science -- Intermezzo II. Undergraduate study -- Applying Mathematics to Problems -- Intermezzo III. Graduate study -- Geologic Time -- Intermezzo IV. Graduate study II -- Putting Numbers On Geologic Ages -- Intermezzo V. A Postdoctoral Year in Switzerland - and Europe - I -- Documenting Past Climate Change -- Intermezzo VI. A Postdoctoral Year in Switzerland - and Europe  -  II -- The Nature Of Energy Received From The Sun - The Analogies With Water Waves And Sound -- Intermezzo VII. New Horizons and the Berlin Wall -- The Nature Of Energy Received From The Sun - Figuring Out What Light Really Is -- The Academic Life -- Exploring The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- Intermezzo IX. Back and Forth through the Iron Curtain -- The Origins Of Climate Science - The Idea Of Energy Balance -- Intermezzo X. Getting used to the East -- The Climate System -- Intermezzo XI. The most memorable summer of my life was 1968 -- What's At The Bottom Of Alice's Rabbit Hole -- Intermezzo XII. Illinois and Miami -- Energy From The Sun - Long-Term Variations -- Intermezzo XIII The Deep Sea Drilling Project - DSDP -- Solar Variability And Cosmic Rays -- Intermezzo XIV. A History of the Deep Sea Drilling Project and JOIDES -- Albedo -- Intermezzo XV. Internationalization of the Deep Sea Drilling Project -- Air -- Intermezzo XVI.  The Cretaceous Puzzle -- HOH - The Keystone Of Earth's Climate -- Intermezzo XVII Becoming a Dean -- The Atmosphere -- Intermezzo XVIII Fund Raising -- Oxygen And Ozone - Products And Protectors of Life.-  Intermezzo XIX Building A Building -- Water Vapor - The Major Greenhouse Gas -- Intermezzo XX An Unexpected Detour -- Carbon Dioxide -- Intermezzo XXI Course Correction -- Other Greenhouse Gases -- Intermezzo XXII. Exciting Times -- The Coriolis Force -- Intermezzo XXIII Decision Time -- The Circulation Of Earth's Atmosphere -- Intermezzo XXIV: The Zindani Affair -- The Modern Ocean's General Circulation -- Intermezzo XXV. The Geological Congress in  Moscow - 1984 -- The Biological Interactions -- Intermezzo XXVI Eagle Plume -- Sea level -- Intermezzo XXVII Second Sabbatical -- Global Climate Change - The (Geologically) Immediate Past -- Intermezzo XXVIII European Odyssey I -- Is There An Analog For The Future Climate?- Intermezzo XXIX European Odyssey II -- The Instrumental Temperature Record -- Intermezzo XXX European Odyssey III -- The Near Future -- Intermezzo XXXI Retirement -- The Distant Future -- Intermezzo XXXII.
Keywords: Nature; Environment; Climate change; Historical geology; Popular Science in Nature and Environment; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Historical Geology