Mark Lynas

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Six Degrees

Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Beschreibung

In astonishing and unflinching detail, a noted science journalist explains how Earth's climate will be impacted with every degree of increase in global warming--and what can be done about it now.

Autor

Mark Lynas, a journalist, campaigner, and broadcast commentator on environmental issues, is the author of High Tide: News from a Warming World. He is a contributor to periodicals including New Statesman, Ecologist, Granta, and Geographical, and to the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the United Kingdom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Disney Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781426203855
• ISBN-10: 1426203853
• Artikelnr.: 24433929

Rezensionen

'Scientists predict that global temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees over the course of this century and Mark Lynas paints a chilling, degree-by-degree picture of the devastation likely to ensue unless we act now..."Six Degrees" is a rousing and vivid plea to choose a different future.' Daily Mail

'The saga of how, in the world as imagined by thousands of computer-modelling studies, global warming kicks in degree by degree. "Six Degrees", I tell you now, is terrifying.' Sunday Times

'Brilliant and higly readable.' Sunday Times