The last winter: the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world
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A blend of narrative travelogue, history, and climatology is set against the end of ice, snow, and winter as we know it.
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.
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Fox, P. (2021). The last winter: the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world. First edition. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fox, Porter. 2021. The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fox, Porter, The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World. Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fox, Porter. The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World. First edition. Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The fires. It started in Couger Flats ; The bird is sick ; The transfer of energy ; Obelisks of time ; The final questions -- The icefield. The law of high latitudes ; Life and the living dead inside the glacier ; The enchanted divide ; The 10,000-year window -- The Alps. The great melt has arrived ; The big picture ; The ice city ; The lost and found memories office -- White earth. A bad omen ; A brief history of death and survival ; The lark's foot ; Nancy Pelosi goes to Swiss camp ; Club Aurora ; This world is brutal - be happy you are not dead yet. | |
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