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The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
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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 warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels t...