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Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth / Curt Stager.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stager, Curt.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global environmental change--Forecasting.
- Global environmental change.
- Climatic changes--Forecasting.
- Climatic changes.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Forecasting.
- Nature.
- Human ecology--Forecasting.
- Human ecology.
- Third millennium--Forecasts.
- Third millennium.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Genre:
- Forecasts.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, [2011]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "March 2011"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780312614621
- 0312614624
- OCLC:
- 651912628
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