Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth / Curt Stager.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780312614621
- 0312614624
- Global environmental change -- Forecasting
- Climatic changes -- Forecasting
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Forecasting
- Human ecology -- Forecasting
- Third millennium -- Forecasts
- Climatic changes -- Forecasting
- Global environmental change -- Forecasting
- Human ecology -- Forecasting
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Forecasting
- Third millennium
- Climate change -- Environmental aspects -- Forecasting
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- GE149 .S73 2011
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BOOK | NCAR Library Mesa Lab | GE149 .S73 2011 | 1 | Available | 50583020012690 |
"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.