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Book

Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth

Call Number

  • 363.7 S7798 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2011.

Physical Description

xiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

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