David Archer is a professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, working on models of Earth’s carbon cycle and its interaction with global climate, topics such as fossil fuel neutralization by CaCO3, methane hydrate formation, ocean mercury cycling, and the deep future of the global warming climate change event. Dr. Archer has written a series of books on climate change, including Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, a text for non-science major undergraduates now in second edition;The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate;The Global Carbon Cycle, a primer in climate science; and The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast. He teaches classes on Environmental chemistry and Earth’s climate evolution.
