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Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth / Curt Stager.

By: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780312614621
  • 0312614624
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.7001/12 22
LOC classification:
  • GE149 .S73 2011
Contents:
Stopping the ice -- Beyond global warming -- The last great thaw -- Life in a super-greenhouse -- Future fossils -- Oceans of acid -- The rising tide -- An ice-free Arctic -- The greening of Greenland -- What about the tropics? -- Bringing it home.
Summary: A paleoclimatologist makes predictions about how environmental choices in the twenty-first century will affect life on the planet throughout the distant future, drawing on geological history to argue that global cooling poses a more significant threat.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab GE149 .S73 2011 1 Available 50583020012690
Total holds: 0

"March 2011"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.

Stopping the ice -- Beyond global warming -- The last great thaw -- Life in a super-greenhouse -- Future fossils -- Oceans of acid -- The rising tide -- An ice-free Arctic -- The greening of Greenland -- What about the tropics? -- Bringing it home.

A paleoclimatologist makes predictions about how environmental choices in the twenty-first century will affect life on the planet throughout the distant future, drawing on geological history to argue that global cooling poses a more significant threat.

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