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Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth / Curt Stager.
Publication details: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2011.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780312614638 (pbk.):
- 9780312614621 (hbk.)
- 0312614624 (hbk.)
- GE149 .S73 2011
Contents:
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.
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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | GE 149 .S73 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5143258 |
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| GE 105 .E16 2000 The earth around us : maintaining a livable planet / | GE 105 .G563 2004 Global environmental issues / | GE 149 .L65 2001 The skeptical environmentalist : measuring the real state of the world / | GE 149 .S73 2011 Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth / | GE 170 .E77 2021 Essential concepts of global environmental governance / | GE 170 .G43 2001 Evolution of international environmental negotiations : from Stockholm to Rio de Janeiro / | GE 170 .G5548 2012 Global environmental governance reconsidered / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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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