CURT STAGER is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science writer with a Ph.D. in biology and geology from Duke University. He has published more than three dozen climate- and ecology-related articles in major journals including Science and Quaternary Research, and has written for popular audiences in periodicals such as National Geographic. He teaches at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and holds a research associate post at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, where he investigates the long-term history of climate in Africa, South America, and the polar regions.
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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Prologue | p. 1 |
Stopping the Ice | p. 13 |
Beyond Global Warming | p. 29 |
The Last Great Thaw | p. 49 |
Life in a Super-Greenhouse | p. 67 |
Future Fossils | p. 86 |
Oceans of Acid | p. 102 |
The Rising Tide | p. 118 |
An Ice-Free Arctic | p. 139 |
The Greening of Greenland | p. 162 |
What About the Tropics? | p. 181 |
Bringing It Home | p. 203 |
Epilogue | p. 228 |
References | p. 243 |
Index | p. 271 |
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