Each chapter is titled by a degree, from one to six, and tries to give you a good idea of what scientists think might happen as temperatures rise more and more. Lynas does a work of synthesis, drawing on the latest scientific articles, the latest computer models, and prediction based on past warm events in history. A 3-degree rise would spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, the disappearance of Greenland's ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa, which we are also starting to see to some extent.
At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost, which we are now seeing. So, in 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report projecting-based on current trends and practices-average global surface temperatures to rise between 1.4 degrees and 5.8 degrees Celsius (roughly 2 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the 21st century. But my friend Alan told me I must read this now, so I did. And then we elected a climate denier who has in place various billionaires sympathetic to this suicidal position, include Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil CEO, as possible Secretary of State. I guess that’s a kind of denial, but sometimes there’s only so much bad news you can take. I have kids and don’t like to imagine a future in greater chaos than the present we now face. Īnd his more recent (2010) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetĪnd some other such realistically frightening books, so I thought I might just pass this one by. And this five star rating is not because I "enjoyed" reading this, believe me, but because it's a gift that science has given us that we shouldn't just ignore or be in denial about.Īnyway, I read Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature. I’m in a group on Goodreads, The Transition Movement, where some people discuss climate change, read books. I’m a long supporter of principles of ecological democracy, resource sustainability, and the like. I know my Edward Abbey (Desert Solitaire). I’ve long been a reader and (sometimes) supporter of various ecoterrorist/environmental acts and movements. I was there for the first Earth Day, when it appeared we all began to realize we were killing the planet. As a young man in the sixties I read Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. But’s it’s not exactly as if I have been in denial. I k I saw this book when it first came out in 2008 and deliberately did not pick it up. I saw this book when it first came out in 2008 and deliberately did not pick it up. A 6-degree increase would eliminate most life on Earth, including much of humanity.īased on authoritative scientific articles, the latest computer models, and information about past warm events in Earth history, Six Degrees promises to be an eye-opening warning that humanity will ignore at its peril.more 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.
At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. Based on this forecast, author Mark Lynas outlines what to expect from a warming world, degree by degree. In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report projecting average global surface temperatures to rise between 1.4 degrees and 5.8 degrees Celsius (roughly 2 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists p Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next.
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