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 100,000 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?

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Curt Stager
Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist who has written extensively for general audiences in periodicals such as National Geographic and Adirondack Life.  In this age of specialisation, Stager’s  background in the natural sciences stands out for its depth and breadth.  He has taught marine ecology in the Caribbean, North Carolina, and Maine, and taught geology, biology, and evolution in upstate New York and paleolimnology in Tanzania.  A world authority on the ecological history of Africa and its lakes, he has also investigated El Niño in Peru, human impacts on lakes in Sweden, exploding lakes in Cameroon, bat pollination of flowers on the South Pacific islands of Melanesia, and modern climate change in the northeastern U.S.

Curt is currently a teacher 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 continues to investigate the long-term history of climate in Africa, South America, the polar regions, and the northeastern United States.