Han Dolman is a climate scientist and director of the Royal NIOZ, the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, as well as a Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam. For many years, his work has been centered around the global carbon cycle and its relation to our climate. Over the length of his career, he has been involved in several international research programs such as the Global Climate Observing System. He is the author of Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate (OUP 2019).

• Table of Contents Preface 1: Carbon Dioxide: From a wild spirit to a climate culprit 2: What does carbon dioxide do in the atmosphere? 3: The discovery of the carbon dioxide molecule 4: Carbon dioxide and the rocks of the Earth 5: Carbon dioxide and the vegetation of the Earth 6: Carbon dioxide in the geological path 7: Carbon dioxide and the waxing and waning of ice sheets 8: Humans, fire, fossil fuel and the rise of anthropgenic C02 9: Determining atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide 10: Climate change, models and the allowable carbon budget 11: The world comes slowly into action 12: The bumpy road to the future Bibliography

A very informative, important, timely, and very readable book.

Han Dolman is a climate scientist and director of the Royal NIOZ, the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, as well as a Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam. For many years, his work has been centered around the global carbon cycle and its relation to our climate. Over the length of his career, he has been involved in several international research programs such as the Global Climate Observing System. He is the author of Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate (OUP 2019).

• Table of Contents Preface 1: Carbon Dioxide: From a wild spirit to a climate culprit 2: What does carbon dioxide do in the atmosphere? 3: The discovery of the carbon dioxide molecule 4: Carbon dioxide and the rocks of the Earth 5: Carbon dioxide and the vegetation of the Earth 6: Carbon dioxide in the geological path 7: Carbon dioxide and the waxing and waning of ice sheets 8: Humans, fire, fossil fuel and the rise of anthropgenic C02 9: Determining atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide 10: Climate change, models and the allowable carbon budget 11: The world comes slowly into action 12: The bumpy road to the future Bibliography

A very informative, important, timely, and very readable book.

Han Dolman is a climate scientist and director of the Royal NIOZ, the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, as well as a Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam. For many years, his work has been centered around the global carbon cycle and its relation to our climate. Over the length of his career, he has been involved in several international research programs such as the Global Climate Observing System. He is the author of Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate (OUP 2019).

• Table of Contents Preface 1: Carbon Dioxide: From a wild spirit to a climate culprit 2: What does carbon dioxide do in the atmosphere? 3: The discovery of the carbon dioxide molecule 4: Carbon dioxide and the rocks of the Earth 5: Carbon dioxide and the vegetation of the Earth 6: Carbon dioxide in the geological path 7: Carbon dioxide and the waxing and waning of ice sheets 8: Humans, fire, fossil fuel and the rise of anthropgenic C02 9: Determining atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide 10: Climate change, models and the allowable carbon budget 11: The world comes slowly into action 12: The bumpy road to the future Bibliography

A very informative, important, timely, and very readable book.