Lynas, Mark

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

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ISBN 13:: 9780007209057
author:: Lynas, Mark
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Harper Perennial
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2008
Pages:: 288
Dimensions:: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.3 centimetres (0
Genre:: Global warming
Condition:: New
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A world in crisis: average temperatures three degrees higher than they are now. Rivers ten times the size of the online marketplace gush off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic, displacing victims from North Africa's drought. In New York, a Category 5-plus superstorm devastates waterside areas, while Pakistan struggles with drought brought on by disappearing Himalayan glaciers. The consequences are dire: 27 million farmers flee to refugee camps in India, and the Pakistani government prepares a last-ditch attempt to increase the flow of the Indus river. The situation is further complicated by an epic Amazonian conflagration consuming vast areas of South America. Mark Lynas's 'Six Degrees' paints a vivid picture of our future on a hotter planet, based on the terrifying possibility that average temperatures will rise by up to six degrees within the next hundred years.

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