Six degrees

our future on a hotter planet

by

Hardcover, 335 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2008 by National Geographic.

OCLC Number:
154760123

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(1 review)

In accessible journalistic prose, author Lynas distills what environmental scientists predict about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years, 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, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa. A 6-degree increase would eliminate most life on Earth, including much of humanity. Based on authoritative scientific articles, the latest computer models, and information about past warm events in Earth history, this promises to be an eye-opening warning that humanity will ignore at its peril.--From publisher description.

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A really clear presentation of swaths of climate change studies describing the impacts of the at-the-time-2007 expected range of warming 1-6 degrees by 2100. Combines model prediction studies and paleoclimate reconstructions to give a variety of regional and ecosystem/society depictions, and paints a bleak destructive view by 3 and certainly 4 degrees. More recent IPCC reports have extended plausible range of business as usual emissions to 8.5 degrees, and basically 2200 is beyond mentioning, so this was not light comfortable reading.

Subjects

  • Klimaänderung
  • Climatic changes
  • Effect of climate on
  • Treibhauseffekt
  • Social aspects
  • Erwärmung (Meteorologie)
  • Soziales
  • Global warming
  • Umwelt
  • Human beings
  • Einfluss