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Date |
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ISBN |
20
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$a9780316460927$c$28.00 |
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ISBN |
20
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$a0316460923$c$28.00 |
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39
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$a361412$cTLC |
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$a363.73874 |
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100
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$aFox, Porter. |
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Title |
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$aThe last winter :$bthe scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world /$cPorter Fox. |
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$bLittle Brown and Company$c2021 |
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Phys Descrpt |
300
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$axii, 306 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm |
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505
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$aThe Fires : It started in Cougar Flats -- The bird is sick -- The transfer of energy -- Obelisks of time -- The final question -- 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 -- The world is brutal - be happy you are not dead yet. |
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Abstract |
520
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$a"As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything--from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world. This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys--each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in Northern Maine."--Provided by publisher. |
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Subj:Topical |
650
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$aGlobal warming. |
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650
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$aClimatic changes. |
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650
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$aWinter. |
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650
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$aEnvironmental monitoring. |
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$aSMANF$c363.73874$dFOX$g33390004779464$p28 |
