title: The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate (Science Essentials)
author:  David Archer 
description: With so much dust and noise thrown up by those economic forces opposed to reducing carbon emissions, average readers may be hard-pressed to understand what all the fuss is about. Univ. of Chicago geophysicist Archer has perfectly pitched answers to the most basic questions about global warming while providing a sound basis for understanding the complex issues frequently misrepresented by global warming skeptics. Revisiting his technical treatment of the same subject (2006's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast), Archer presents detailed science in layman's language. With a breezy, conversational style, he breaks complex concepts into everyday analogies, comparing for example the oxidation and reduction of carbon dioxide in seawater with an upset stomach. Divided into three parts-the Present, the Past and the Future-Archer provides a complete picture of climate change now, in the past, and what we can expect in years and centuries to come. His models, though conservative, imply that humans won't survive the environmental consequences of severe warming over the next thousand years. While Archer is neither grim nor pessimistic, he is forthright about what's at stake, and what must do to avert catastrophe. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text:  Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis 
  
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   Climate Change Science: 
  A Modern Synthesis 
   Volume 1 - The Physical Climate  
  
   G. Thomas  Farmer 
   Farmer Enterprises 
   Las Cruces, NM, USA 
   John  Cook 
   School of Psychology 
   The University of Queensland 
   St Lucia, QLD, Australia 
   ISBN 978-94-007-5756-1     ISBN 978-94-007-5757-8 (eBook) 
   DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5757-8 
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