Our Fragile Moment

How Lessons from the Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

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Michael E. Mann: Our Fragile Moment (2023, PublicAffairs)

English language

Published July 19, 2023 by PublicAffairs.

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978-1-5417-0291-2
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Interesting overview of paleoclimatology

Covers a number of previous extinctions and climate anomalies (think P-T, K-Pg, and PETM, among others) and draws lessons from them for today's climate change. Somewhat optimistic as Mann doesn't think warming will trigger a methane catastrophe, but his explanation of hysteresis really makes clear how overshooting and then hoping to recover really doesn't work.