Books Details
Author : Mark Lynas Pages : 336 pages Publisher : National Geographic
Language : ISBN-10 : 1426203853 ISBN-13 : 9781426203855
Books Descriptions
Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been
published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An
Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next.
Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and
compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what
environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human
pollution for the next hundred years. In 2001, the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report projecting
average global surface temperatures to rise between 1.4 degrees and 5.8
degrees Celsius (roughly 2 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this
century. Based on this forecast, author Mark Lynas outlines what to
expect from a warming world, degree by degree. At 1 degree Celsius, most
coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. A 3-degree rise would
spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, disappearance of Greenland's
ice sheet,
