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"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"--Publisher's description.
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The Last Winter, Porter Fox
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2021
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- Titolo
- The Last Winter
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Porter Fox
- Editore
- Headline Publishing Group
- Pubblicato
- 2021
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1472270916
- ISBN13
- 9781472270917
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Mappe e viaggi, Storie vere, Biografie, Scienza e Matematica, Natura, Viaggi, Autobiografie e memorie, Scienza, Tematica ecologica, Ecologia
- Descrizione
- "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"--Publisher's description.