Six Degrees : Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)

from LibraryCin

In this book, the author divides the chapters to look at what would happen as the global average temperature rises 1 degree Celsius, 2 degrees, 3, 4, 5, and 6 degrees. More fires and drought in California and Australia. Melting of ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic. Melting of glaciers in mou...

from ghr4

Mark Lynas's Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, written in 2008, presents in devastating detail the likely trajectory of the climate change crisis if we remain on our current course. Lynas shows, degree by degree Celcius, the alarming consequences of global warming. He effectively buttre...

from Stbalbach

The IPCC says that in the 21st century global warming could bring temperatures anywhere from 1 to 6 degrees hotter. Lynas uses peer-reviewed scientific literature to show what these temperature rises could mean. In 6 chapters he outlines 6 degrees, 1 degree for each chapter. Fundamentally, once t...

from blueslibrarian

This book tracks the effects on the Earth of incremental one degree rises that scientists theorize could happen during climate change brought about by man made global warming. This was an interesting and frightening account, backed by hard scientific evidence. Lynas writes well, taking into accou...

from Jacenschimmel

Interesting but slightly depressing book about the effects of global warming one degree at a time.