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Our final warning : six degrees of climate emergency

Lynas, Mark, 1973-2021
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Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe. At one degree - the world we are already living in - vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At four, large areas of the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and turning billions into climate refugees. At five, the planet is warmer than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of the end of all life on Earth.
Author:
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2021.©2020
Collation:
xii, 372 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
One degreeTwo degreesThree degreesFour degreesFive degreesSix degreesThe endgame.
ISBN:
9780008308568 (pbk)9780008308568 (paperback)9780008308575 (paperback)
Dewey class:
363.73874363.7387
Language:
English
BRN:
644220
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