Runaway Climate: What the Geological Past Can Tell Us about the Coming Climate Change Catastrophe

With tipping points and extreme global warming looming, the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past

"If you care at all about our future, you must read Runaway Climate." —Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute,

With rising emissions, we are on track to cause rapid global warming with devastating con- sequences. But how bad could climate change get and what might it do to planet Earth and humanity?

Fifty-six million years ago our planet experienced a pe...