Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth / Curt Stager.
By: Stager, Curt.
Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2011Edition: 1st pbk. ed.Description: xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780312614638 (pbk.):; 9780312614621 (hbk.); 0312614624 (hbk.).Subject(s): Global environmental change -- Forecasting | Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Forecasting | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Forecasting | Human ecology -- Forecasting | Third millennium -- Forecasts | Climate change -- Environmental aspects -- ForecastingItem type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | GE 149 .S73 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5143258 |
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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