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Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly describes how the decisions we make about the environment in the st century will affect the next years of life on this planet and how todays environmental debate is missing the long-term evidence By considering the Earths history over millions of years this book changes our understanding Most people accept that our planet is warming and that humans played the key role in causing it We worry about the next few hundred years yet miss its long-term magnitude So what will the world look like Curt Stager draws on geological history to show that the greatest threat to humans will not be global warming but global cooling When that hot backlash eventually happens is entirely up to us We have already put off the next Ice Age but whether our descendents will see an ice-free Arctic miles of submerged coasts or an acidified ocean can still be decided Whether we continue to pollute or rein ourselves in for the sake of future generations the world will be vastly different This lucid book will force climate sceptics activists and everyone in between think again about our future earth.
About the Author
Curt Stager was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1956, spent most of his youth in Manchester, CT, and attended Bowdoin College and Duke University. Since 1987, he has been a professor of natural sciences at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where he also enjoys playing banjo and guitar, skiing the backcountry, and co-hosting "Natural Selections," a weekly science program on North Country Public Radio. For more information about Curt, his research, radio show, or his writings, visit http://www.curtstager.com, or his "Save The Carbon" blog at http://www.savethecarbon.blogspot.com.