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The long thaw : how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate / David Archer.

By: Series: Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)) ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009Description: ix, 180 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691136547 (hbk.)
  • 0691136548 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.73874 22
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.G56 .A74 2009
Contents:
Prologue: Global warming in geologic time -- section 1. The present -- The greenhouse effect -- We've seen it with our own eyes -- Forecast of the century -- section 2. The past -- Millennial climate cycles -- Glacial climate cycles -- Geologic climate cycles -- The present in the bosom of the past -- section 3. The future -- The fate of fossil fuel CO₂ -- Acidifying the ocean -- Carbon cycle feedbacks -- Sea level in the deep future -- Orbits, CO₂, and the next Ice Age -- Epilogue: Carbon economics and ethics.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC981.8 .G56 .A74 2009 1 Available 50583020012930
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Global warming in geologic time -- section 1. The present -- The greenhouse effect -- We've seen it with our own eyes -- Forecast of the century -- section 2. The past -- Millennial climate cycles -- Glacial climate cycles -- Geologic climate cycles -- The present in the bosom of the past -- section 3. The future -- The fate of fossil fuel CO₂ -- Acidifying the ocean -- Carbon cycle feedbacks -- Sea level in the deep future -- Orbits, CO₂, and the next Ice Age -- Epilogue: Carbon economics and ethics.

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