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

by David Archer

Book Overview

Why a warmer climate may be humanity's longest-lasting legacy

The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be "locked in," essentially forever.

If you think that global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691169063
• ISBN13: 9780691169064
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"