What do we know about the climate? Sources of climate history ; Causes of climate change ; The Palaeoclimate since the formation of the planet
Global warming : the Holocene. Children of the ice age ; Global warming and civilization ; From Roman optimum to medieval warm period
Global cooling : the little ice age. The concept of the little ice age ; The changing environment ; Dance of death ; Winter blues
Cultural consequences of the little ice age. The wrathful God ; Sin economics as the motor of change ; The cool sun of reason
Global warming : the modern warm period. Apparent uncoupling from the forces of nature ; The discovery of global warming ; Reactions to climate change
Epilogue : sins against the environment and greenhouse climate.