The long thaw: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of earth`s climate/ (Record no. 186434)
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| fixed length control field | 00408nam a2200133Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691136547 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.73874 |
| Item number | ARC/ |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Archer, David. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The long thaw: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of earth`s climate/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | David Archer |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Princeton: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Princeton Universities Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 180 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | SECTION I: THE PRESENT<br/><br/>Chapter 1. The Greenhouse Effect <br/><br/>Fourier and greenhouse theory Early CO2 measurements Arrhenius and the forecast. Climate science since then.<br/><br/>Chapter 2: We've Seen It with Our Own Eyes.<br/><br/>Testing the forecast Impacts already. <br/><br/>Chapter 3: Forecast of the Century. <br/><br/>A century-timescale climate spike Temperature, rainfall, sea level, and storms <br/><br/>SECTION II: THE PAST <br/><br/>Chapter 4: Millennial Climate Cycles. <br/><br/>Abrupt climate transitions, and climate cycles on millennial timescales. The Little Ice Age and the Medieval Optimum climates <br/><br/>Chapter 5: Glacial Climate Cycles <br/><br/>History of their discovery Ice flows and melts in quirky ways. Orbital forcing and CO2 forcing <br/><br/>Chapter 6: Geologic Climate Cycles. <br/><br/>Our ice age is unusual. The Earth is breathing. <br/><br/>Chapter 7: The Present in the Bosom of the Past. <br/><br/>Climate change so far and in the coming century, compared with deglaciation, abrupt climate change, the Eocene hothouse, the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum event, and the K/T boundary. <br/><br/>SECTION III: THE FUTURE<br/><br/>Chapter 8: The Fate of Fossil Fuel CO2 Reservoirs of carbon, breathing New carbon from fossil fuels equilibrates with the ocean and the land. <br/><br/>Chapter 9: Acidifying the Ocean. <br/><br/>CO2 is an acid CaCO3 is a base. Neutralization takes millennia. CO2 remains higher than natural for hundreds of millennia Chapter <br/><br/>10: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks. <br/><br/>The short-term prognosis. The long-term prognosis. Chapter <br/><br/>11: Sea Level in the Deep Future.<br/><br/>If the past is the key to the future, we have the capacity to raise sea level by 50 meters, eventually. <br/><br/>Chapter 12: Orbits, CO2 , and the Next Ice Age.<br/><br/>Interplay between orbital and CO2 climate forcings. The next ice age is about to be canceled. <br/><br/><br/>Epilogue: Carbon Economics and Ethics.<br/><br/>What the options are and how we decide. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on |
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| Keyword | Climatic changes--Forecasting |
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| Keyword | Global warming |
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| Keyword | Global warming--Social aspects |
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| Keyword | Paleoclimatology |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 363.73874 ARC/ | P41448 | 10/07/2018 | 10/07/2018 | General Books |