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The last winter : the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world  Cover Image Book Book

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

Fox, Porter, (author.).

Summary:

"One man's "curiously thrilling joyride" of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation. 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."--Amazon.ca.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316460927 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Climatic changes.
Meteorology.
Weather.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Cookstown Branch 551.6 Fox 31681010256394 NONFIC Available -


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