The last winter the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world
"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, beaut...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The last winter : |b the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world / |c Porter Fox. |
| 246 | 1 | 0 | |a Scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2021. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2021 | |
| 300 | |a xii, 306 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographic references (pages 295-297) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "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." |c Publisher's description. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The Fires : It started in Cougar Flats -- The bird is sick -- The transfer of energy -- Obelisks 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 -- The world is brutal - be happy you are not dead yet. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Fox, Porter |x Travel. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global warming. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Climatic changes. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Winter. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Environmental monitoring. | |
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