| Publication |
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2009.
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| Description |
ix, 180pDark Blue spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
The definitive book on paleoclimatology, David Archer skilfully tells the climate story of how future generations will inherit atmospheric changes and an altered climate as a result of our current decisions about fossil-fuel burning which will last for several millenia.
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| Contents |
Prologue
Global warming in geologic time
The greenhouse effect
We've seen it with our own eyes
Forecast of the century
Millenial climate cycles
Glacial climate cycles
Geologic climate cycles
The present in the bosom of the past
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
Carbon economics and ethics
Furthur reading
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| Standard Number |
9780691136547 Hb.
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