The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate (Science Essentials) (Princeton Science Library)

by David Archer

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If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist only so long as fossil fuels hold out (or until we decide to stop burning them), think again. In "The Long Thaw", David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, predicts that if we continue to emit carbon dioxide we may eventually cancel the next ice age and raise the oceans by 50 meters. The great ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland may take more than a century to melt, and the overall change in sea level will be...Read more
  • ISBN10 6612644931
  • ISBN13 9786612644931
  • Publish Date 22 August 2010 (first published 6 October 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 24 August 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 192
  • Language English
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