The Long Thaw : : How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate /

The Long Thaw : : How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate / / David Archer.

The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in cli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Archer, David,
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Archer, David.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Princeton Science Library ; 98
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 2 halftones. 20 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Princeton Science Library Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue. Global Warming in Geologic Time
  • Section I. The present
  • Chapter 1. The greenhoude effect
  • Chapter 2. We've Seen It with Our Own Eyes
  • Chapter 3. Forecast of the Century
  • Section II. The past
  • Chapter 4. Millennial Climate Cycles
  • Chapter 5. Glacial Climate Cycles
  • Chapter 6. Geologic Climate Cycles
  • Chapter 7. The Present in the Bosom of the Past
  • Section III. The future
  • Chapter 8. Fate of Fossil Fuel CO2
  • Chapter 9. Acidifying the Ocean
  • Chapter 10. Carbon Cycle Feedbacks
  • Chapter 11. Sea Level in the Deep Future
  • Chapter 12. Orbits, CO2, and the Next Ice Age
  • Epilogue. Carbon Economics and Ethics
  • Further Reading
  • Index

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