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Why a warmer climate may be humanity's longest-lasting legacyThe 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 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 predicts that if we continue to emit carbon dioxide we may eventually cancel the next ice age and raise the oceans by 50 meters. A human-driven, planet-wide thaw has already begun, and will continue to impact Earth's climate and sea level for hundreds of thousands of years. The great ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland may take more than a century to melt, and the overall change in sea level will be one hundred times what is forecast for 2100. By comparing the global warming projection for the next century to natural climate changes of the distant past, and
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- Author
- Archer, David; Archer, David;
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400880775
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Physics
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (92 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate : How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate (2010)
- The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Princeton Science Library Book 44) (2016)
- The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate (Science Essentials, 5) (2010)
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