TY  - BOOK
AU  - Archer, David.
TI  - The long thaw: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of earth`s climate
SN  - 9780691136547
U1  - 363.73874 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton Universities Press
KW  - Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on	
KW  - Climatic changes--Forecasting	
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Global warming--Social aspects
KW  - Paleoclimatology
N1  - 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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