Here you can read the latest insights on how the climate is created and the mechanisms that determine it, and why the climate fluctuates between tropical hot and icy cold.

These mechanisms include:

-Plate tectonics that controls the import of CO2 into the atmosphere and chemical processes to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere.

-New logically constructed analyses of the ice cores drilled in the Antarctica ice cap that shows the minimum reaction temperature of the CO2 removal chemical processe...

Indian poetry of the classical style, kāvya, has been long ignored by western Indologists. Nowadays opinion slowly tends to change in favour of this rather extreme poetry. Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīya, the poem treated in this volume is part of the tradition of epic poems or mahākāvyas. Six are recognized. The Kirātārjunīya marks the beginning of a new style of Indian poetry and represents one of the best written in this tradition. The plot is taken from the Mahābhārata.

The authors of...