GLOBAL WARMING
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE GLOBAL EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH 1 1 ORIGIN OF THE EARTH AND ITS COMPOSITION 1 2 FORMATION OF THE EARTH-MOON DOUBLE PLANET 1 3 BEGINNING OF TECTONOMAGMATIC ACTIVITY ON EARTH 1 4 SEPARATION OF EARTH’S CORE (MAIN FACTOR DRIVING THE EARTH’S GLOBAL EVOLUTION) 1 5 ENERGY BALANCE OF THE EARTH 1 6 TECTONIC ACTIVITY OF EARTH 1 7 EVOLUTION OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE MANTLE 1 8 FORMATION OF OCEANIC AND CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC PLATES CHAPTER 2 DEGASSING OF EARTH AND FORMATION OF HYDROSPHERE AND ATMOSPHERE 2 1 FORMATION OF THE EARTH’S HYDROSPHERE 2 2 FORMATION OF IRON-BEARING DEPOSITS 2 3 NATURE OF GLOBAL TRANSGRESSIONS 2 4 FORMATION OF THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE 2 5 EVOLUTION OF PARTIAL PRESSURE OF NITROGEN IN THE ATMOSPHERE 2 6 EVOLUTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE PARTIAL PRESSURE 2 7 OXYGEN ACCUMULATION IN THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE 2 8 GENERATION OF ABIOGENIC METHANE 2 9 ORIGIN OF THE ‘‘OZONE HOLES’’ CHAPTER 3 THE ADIABATIC THEORY OF GREENHOUSE EFFECT 3 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 GEENHOUSE EFFECT 3 3 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PRESENT-DAY ATMOSPHERE 3 4 KEY POINTS OF THE ADIABATIC THEORY OF GREENHOUSE EFFECT 3 5 POSSIBLE DIRECTIONS OF GENERALIZING THE ADIABATIC THEORY 3 6 PROGNOSTIC ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE ESTIMATES 3 7 IMPACT OF ANTHROPOGENIC FACTOR ON THE EARTH’S CLIMATE 3 8 IN?UENCE OF OCEANS ON THE ATMOSPHERIC CONTENT OF CARBON DIOXIDE 3 9 METHANE EMISSION EFFECT CHAPTER 4 EVOLUTION OF EARTH’S CLIMATES 4 1 INTRODUCTION 4 2 CLIMATIC COOLING DURING CENOZOIC ERA 4 3 BACTERIAL NATURE OF THE EARTH’S GLACIATIONS 4 4 PRECESSION CYCLES AND THE EARTH’S CLIMATE 4 5 CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND THE CLIMATES OF EARTH CHAPTER 5 IN?UENCE OF CLIMATE ON FORMATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS ON EARTH 5 1 INTRODUCTION 5 2 PLATE TECTONICS AND ORIGINS OF ENDOGENIC MINERAL DEPOSITS 5 3 EARTH’S CORE SEPARATION DETERMINING THE GEOLOGIC EVOLUTION OF EARTH 5 4 THE IN?UENCE OF OCEAN AND CLIMATES OF EARTH ON THE FORMATION OF SEDIMENTARY MINERAL DEPOSITS 5 5 ORIGIN OF DIAMOND-BEARING KIMBERLITIC AND SIMILAR ROCKS 5 6 ORIGIN OF EXOGENIC DEPOSITS OF MINERALS 5 7 PLATE TECTONICS AND FORMATION OF HYDROCARBON DEPOSITS CHAPTER 6 ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE ON EARTH (IN?UENCE OF CLIMATE) 6 1 UNIQUENESS OF EARTH 6 2 THE EARTH’S CLIMATE AND ORIGIN OF LIFE 6 3 IN?UENCE OF GEOLOGIC PROCESSES ON THE EVOLUTION OF EARTH’S LIFE 6 4 IN?UENCE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND MARINE TRANSGRESSIONS ON ECOLOGY DURING PHANEROZOIC EON 6 5 FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ATMOSPHERE AND THE DEATH OF EARTH CHAPTER 7 GLOBAL FORCES OF NATURE DRIVING THE EARTH’S CLIMATE 7 1 INTRODUCTION 7 2 SOLAR IRRADIATION REACHING THE EARTH 7 3 ORBITAL DEVIATIONS AND THE EARTH’S MASS REDISTRIBUTION 7 4 THE EARTH’S OUTGASSING GLOBAL CLIMATIC COOLING DUE TO INCREASE IN CO2 CONTENT 7 6 INNER SOURCES OF THE EARTH’S ENERGY 7 7 SMOOTHING ROLE OF WORLD OCEAN 7 8 MICROBIAL ACTIVITY AT EARTH’S SURFACE 7 9 GLACIAL AND INTERGLACIAL PERIODS 7 10 GLOBAL WARMING OR GLOBAL COOLING? 7 11 CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES