CLIMATE WHIPLASH:
WHAT COMES AFTER
GLOBAL WARMING?
8pm Sat 21 May / The Edge Auditorium State Library at Ideas Festival
Paleoclimatologist is a long word which
explains Curt Stager’s authority to speak
about the next 100 000 years of life on earth.
Most debate over global warming looks only
as far ahead as 2100 AD but what happens
after that? As Curt author of Deep Future:
the next 100000 years of life on Earth
argues our fossil fuel emissions will interfere
with climates for much longer than most of
us scientists included yet realise. What will
life in that shockingly deep future be like?