The long thaw : how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate /
David Archer
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009
- ix, 180 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
- Science essentials .
- Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)) .
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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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Global warming. Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on. Global warming--Forecasting. Paleoclimatology. Calentamiento global. Cambios climáticos. Cambios climáticos--Prevención