Name: The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World (en Inglés)
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Author: Fox, Porter
ISBN: 9780316460903

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The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Porter Fox

Editorial

Back Bay Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780316460903

Categorías

Ecología, la biosfera
Meteorología y climatología
Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World (en Inglés)

Porter Fox (Autor) · Back Bay Books · Tapa Blanda

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One man's "curiously thrilling joyride" of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn). As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything--from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world. This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys--each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in Northern Maine. Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last Winter will showcase a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate change--that may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.