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The last winter : the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world
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The last winter : the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xii, 306 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
The fires. It started in Cougar Flats ; The bird is sick ; The transfer of energy ; Odelisks of time ; The final questions -- The icefield. The law of high latitudes ; Life and the living dead inside the glacier ; The enchanted divide ; The 10,000-year window -- The Alps. The great melt has arrived ; The big picture ; The ice city ; The lost and found memories office -- White Earth. A bad omen ; A brief history of death and survival ; The lark's foot ; Nancy Pelosi goes to Swiss camp ; Club Aurora ; This world is brutal-- be happy you are not dead yet.
Publication Info:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

©2021.
Subject:
Winter
Climatic changes
Environmental monitoring
Fox, Porter -- Travel.
Changes, Climatic
Changes in climate
Climate change
Climate change science
Climate changes
Climate variations
Climatic change
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects
Climatic fluctuations
Climatic variations
Global climate changes
Global climatic changes
Biomonitoring (Ecology)
Ecological monitoring
Environmental quality -- Measurement
Environmental quality -- Monitoring
Monitoring, Environmental
SAILS ISBN:
9780316460927