The long thaw: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of earth`s climate/ David Archer
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TextPublication details: Princeton: Princeton Universities Press, 2009Description: xi, 180 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN: 9780691136547Subject(s): Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on | Climatic changes--Forecasting | Global warming | Global warming--Social aspects | PaleoclimatologyDDC classification: 363.73874 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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SECTION I: THE PRESENT
Chapter 1. The Greenhouse Effect
Fourier and greenhouse theory Early CO2 measurements Arrhenius and the forecast. Climate science since then.
Chapter 2: We've Seen It with Our Own Eyes.
Testing the forecast Impacts already.
Chapter 3: Forecast of the Century.
A century-timescale climate spike Temperature, rainfall, sea level, and storms
SECTION II: THE PAST
Chapter 4: Millennial Climate Cycles.
Abrupt climate transitions, and climate cycles on millennial timescales. The Little Ice Age and the Medieval Optimum climates
Chapter 5: Glacial Climate Cycles
History of their discovery Ice flows and melts in quirky ways. Orbital forcing and CO2 forcing
Chapter 6: Geologic Climate Cycles.
Our ice age is unusual. The Earth is breathing.
Chapter 7: The Present in the Bosom of the Past.
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.
SECTION III: THE FUTURE
Chapter 8: The Fate of Fossil Fuel CO2 Reservoirs of carbon, breathing New carbon from fossil fuels equilibrates with the ocean and the land.
Chapter 9: Acidifying the Ocean.
CO2 is an acid CaCO3 is a base. Neutralization takes millennia. CO2 remains higher than natural for hundreds of millennia Chapter
10: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks.
The short-term prognosis. The long-term prognosis. Chapter
11: Sea Level in the Deep Future.
If the past is the key to the future, we have the capacity to raise sea level by 50 meters, eventually.
Chapter 12: Orbits, CO2 , and the Next Ice Age.
Interplay between orbital and CO2 climate forcings. The next ice age is about to be canceled.
Epilogue: Carbon Economics and Ethics.
What the options are and how we decide.
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