The legacy of carbon dioxide: past and present impacts

Preface

Starting elements

Early earth and our solar system

Discovery

Structure

Radiocarbon and its dioxide

The air today

Ye olde aire

Proxies

Fire

Carbon dioxide and water

Going with the flow

Carbonates : the enduring legacy

Volcanoes

Photosynthesis

Respiration and metabolism

Weathering

Carbon dioxide and ice-overs

Food and drink

Fossil fuels

Isotope stories

Appendix : on a piece of chalk (Macmillan's magazine (1868)).