Nome de batismo: Archer, David Edward
Data de nascimento: 1960-09-15
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Educação: University of Washington (PhD|1990)
Ocupação: professor (Department of the Geophysical Sciences)
Ocean chemist
Organizações: University of Chicago
Pequena biografia: A computational ocean chemist, and has been a professor at the Geophysical Sciences department at the University of Chicago since 1993. He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor. He has worked on the history of atmospheric CO2 concentration, the expectation of fossil fuel CO2 over geologic time scales in the future, and the impact of CO2 on future ice age cycles, ocean methane hydrate decomposition, and coral reefs. Archer is a contributor to the RealClimate blog. (Source

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The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next… de David Archer

Another entry in the let's explain global warming to the layman genre. It's not a very good book for that; I had no trouble following the arguments, because I am an environmental scientist. I already know the arguments. But I still found myself confused at times by the style of argumentation used. What was he saying? He also made some errors that were actually very crucial points. Is global warming really going to lead to increased plant growth? If it happens in a controlled laboratory setting, sure. But not likely in the world. He also suggests that he's going to talk about the affects in a long-distant future, and the last section is devoted to that, but spends most of its time on the present century, which is what he complains about everyone else doing. He occasionally mentions the long distant (thousands of years) into the future, but this part of the project is doomed from the start - our projections begin to be much less accurate the farther we get from the present, and so devoting an entire third of a book to this topic is unlikely to be fulfilling. It's mostly going to come down to folks, it's going to be bad, and it's going to be bad for a long time. Which is about what it amounts to. Also, the constant use of scientific abbreviations is probably offputting to the lay reader. I don't recommend this one particularly highly.… (mais)

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Devil_llama | 1 outra resenha | Nov 10, 2013 |

The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to… de David Archer

This book is a more readable summary of the main findings of the IPCC's 4th assessment report. It includes the authors' interpretation of the report and some history behind it. The authors do a fine job of presenting the findings in a way that is both technically correct and accessible to a reasonably intelligent and educated person.

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FredB | Sep 5, 2011 |

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next… de David Archer

Archer, who blogs at RealClimate, gives us a good explanation of what we know and don’t know about the future of Earth’s climate, and how we know it. He explains the causes of climate change and the implications for the near and long-term future. The writing is succinct and accessible, though there are spots where it could’ve used another pass by an editor.

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slothman | 1 outra resenha | Apr 12, 2009 |

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