"The Global Carbon Cycle" is a short introduction to this
essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written
by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this
one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and
simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven
into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the
subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time
scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very
distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in
the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen
concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year
glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean
amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of
decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by
absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land
biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon
cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries
to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and
methane hydrates.
"The Global Carbon Cycle" features a glossary of terms,
suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as
well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the
global carbon cycle.
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