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Last winter : the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world / Porter Fox.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316460927 (hardcover)
  • 0316460923 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.73874 23
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.
Summary: As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last 50 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 percent. 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.
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Includes bibliographic references and index.

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.

As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last 50 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 percent. 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.