The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate

by David Archer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691136548
• ISBN13: 9780691136547
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"