Global Warming

David Archer is the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, published by John Wiley and Sons and a book for popular audiences called The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 years of the Earth's Climate, published by Princeton University Press and winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, The Foundation for the Future.Since 1993, Archer has been a professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and has worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to the global climate, with a special focus on ocean sedimentary processes such as CaCO3 dissolution and methane hydrate formation and their impact on the evolution of atmospheric CO2.He currently teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry and global geochemical cycles.

• Online Models vPreface vii1 Humankind and Climate 1Part I The Greenhouse Effect 72 Blackbody Radiation 93 The Layer Model 194 Greenhouse Gases 295 What Holds the Atmosphere Up? 436 Weather and Climate 577 Feedbacks 73Part II The Carbon Cycle 878 Carbon on Earth 899 Fossil Fuels and Energy 10310 The Perturbed Carbon Cycle 119Part III The Forecast 13311 The Smoking Gun 13512 Potential Climate Impacts 15313 Decisions, Decisions 173Glossary 191Index 197