A significant contribution to climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of new hypothesis gaining increasing acceptance in geoscience circles: long-term cooling and glaciation are mainly controlled by plateau and mountain uplift through their effect on the carbon cycle and atmospheric CO[subscript 2].

Researchers in fields as diverse as geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, geochemistry, sedimentation/geomorphology, paleoceanography, and paleobotany present data and models that address and evaluate this premise.