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The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World

The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World

Fox, Porter

Paperback

Environmental StudiesNature Writing

ISBN10: 0316460907
ISBN13: 9780316460903
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Nov 15 2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.70 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
One man's curiously thrilling joyride of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).

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.

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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