| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Prologue. Global Warming in Geologic Time. An overview of the thrust of the book: human-induced climate change in the context of geologic time, in the past and in the future. | 1 |
| SECTION I. THE PRESENT | |
| Chapter 1. The Greenhouse Effect. Fourier and greenhouse theory. Early CO2 measurements. Arrhenius and the forecast. Climate science since then. | 15 |
| Chapter 2. We’ve Seen It with Our Own Eyes. Testing the forecast. Impacts already. | 30 |
| Chapter 3. Forecast of the Century. A century-timescale climate spike. Temperature, rainfall, sea level, and storms. | 45 |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate.
Contributors: David Archer - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2010.
Page number: vii.
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