The long thaw
Subtitle: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate
By: David Archer
Series: Science essentials; Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780691136547
Subjects: Paleoclimatology; Forecasting; Climatic changes; Anthropogene Klimaänderung; Global warming; Effect of human beings on
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Global warming in geologic time; title: section 1. The present; title: The greenhouse effect; title: We've seen it with our own eyes; title: Forecast of the century; title: section 2. The past; title: Millennial climate cycles; title: Glacial climate cycles; title: Geologic climate cycles; title: The present in the bosom of the past; title: section 3. The future; title: The fate of fossil fuel CO₂; title: Acidifying the ocean; title: Carbon cycle feedbacks; title: Sea level in the deep future; title: Orbits, CO₂, and the next Ice Age; title: Epilogue: Carbon economics and ethics.