Six Degrees

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 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.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 Based on this forecast, author Mark Lynas outlines what to expect from a warming world, degree by degree At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost A 3 degree rise would spell the collapse of the rainforest, disappearance of Greenland s ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa A 6 degree increase would eliminate most life on Earth, including much of humanity.Based 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. Free Read [ Six Degrees ] By [ Mark Lynas ] – kino-fada.fr Expanded reviewFrom the weeping ground there sprang a wind,Flaming with vermillion light,Which overmastered all my senses,And I dropped like a man pulled down by sleep.Dante, Inferno, Canto III Dante enters the First Circle of HellGustave Dor s illustration of Canto III Arrival of Charon.Well the first circle of hell wasn t all that bad, comparatively Purgatory Climate change is the canvas on which the history of the 21st century will be painted Mark LynasA friend who recommended this book Expanded reviewFrom the weeping ground there sprang a wind,Flaming with vermillion light,Which overmastered all my senses,And I dropped like a man pulled down by sleep.Dante, Inferno, Canto III Dante enters the First Circle of HellGustave Dor s illustration of Canto III Arrival of Charon.Well the first circle of hell wasn t all that bad, comparatively Purgatory Climate change is the canvas on which the his...I saw this book when it first came out in 2008 and deliberately did not pick it up But s it s not exactly as if I have been in denial I m a long term environmental activist As a young man in the sixties I read Aldo Leopold s Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson s Silent Spring I was there for the first Earth Day, when it appeared we all began to realize we were killing the planet I ve long been a reader and sometimes supporter of various ecoterrorist environmental acts and movements I k I saw this book when it first came out in 2008 and deliberately did not pick it up But s it s not exactly as if I have been in denial I m a long term environmental activist As a young man in the sixties I read Aldo Leopold s Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson...Reading this book was like meeting someone, falling madly in love, and finding out she s got a terminal illness, all in the space of twenty minutes It s been a decade since I ve thought about Science, and not being much of a nature girl I forgot how mindblowingly amazing and complex the Earth is The best parts of this book really reminded me of that.Did I say terminal illness That s a bad metaphor, since disease seems sort of just to passively happen also, we tend to think of illness as some Reading this book was like meeting someone, falling madly in love, and finding out she s got a terminal illness, all in the space of twenty minutes It s been a decade since I ve thought about Science, and not being much of a nature girl I forgot how mindblowingly amazing and complex the Earth is The best parts of this book really reminded me of that.Did I say terminal illness That s a bad metaphor, since disease seems sort of just to passively happen also, we tend to think of illness as something slow and wasting that takes a long time to kill you Reading this book is like meeting the most beautiful, f...The subject of this book is the fast approaching Global Fry Up Oh, I hear you cry, spare me another jeremiad about this boring topic Yes I m with you It is horribly tiresome Okay, every time you turn on the news you get death, financial crisis, war, ghastliness The news is always bad except for the last little bit of amusing oddness they throw in to stop you hanging yourself from your wardrobe door Let s add to that the general feeling that many people have as they get older that everyth The subject of this book is the fast approaching Global Fry Up Oh, I hear you cry, spare me another jeremiad about this boring topic Yes I m with you It ...This is a 2007 2008 in USA book about global warming It summarizes the results from scientific papers on climate change, and it uses successive chapters to describe the world s climate at 1 C, 2 C, on up to 6 C rise of average temperatures The effects are compared to paleoclimatic studies, with six degrees of warming compared back to the Cretaceous geologic period.Since this book is already ten years old it s interesting to compare its predictions to what has actually happened since it was p This is a 2007 2008 in USA book about global warming It summarizes the results from scientific papers on climate change, and it uses successive chapters to describe the world s climate at 1 C, 2 C, on up to 6 C rise of average temperatures The effects are compared to paleoclimatic studies, with six degrees of warming compared back to the Cretaceous geologic period.Since this book is already ten years old it s interesting to...Why is climate change not the biggest issue for the loudest group of protestors in the West these days I m starting to wonder Why do student firebrands who are usually middle class and comfortable, often protesting about things that don t directly affect them mostly treat it as a secondary issue, some way further down the list than their main concerns Why are SJWs SJWs and not CJWs What if we d had as much progress in legislation and in attitude change among the media in the last five year Why is climate change not the biggest issue for ...Read this on my step father s request I think he might have been trying to get me to shit my pants.This is, roughly, one part robust scientific journalism and one part ecological apocalypse torture porn Working from several decades worth of scientific inquiry into both our current climate situation and periods of vast geologic climactic upheaval, Lynas gives us a best guess global picture of what happens as the temperature rises, degree by degree, from one sucky to six extinction of most pl Read this on my step father s request I think he might have been trying to get me to shit my pants.This is, roughly, one part robust scientific journalism and one part ecological apocalypse torture porn Working from several decades worth of scientific inquiry into both our current climate situation and periods of vast geologic climactic upheaval, Lynas gives us a best guess global picture of what happens as the temperature rises, degree by degree, from one sucky to six extinction of most plants, animals, people Oddly enough I ve found myself working in a lab that measures cosmogenic nuclides via accelerator mass spectronomy Most of what they do the reams of academic papers I been collating into grant proposals has a lot to do with the creating the hard data of ...My review is a call to action for anyone in healthcare in particular, as well as the general public I finishedSix Degrees Our Future on a Hotter Planetseveral days ago, but wanted to let the book s subject matter sit with me a few days before I wrote a review Plus, I ve been freakin busy There are many insightful reviews on the subject matter itself, so I m going to focuson what the book meant to me as a human, and as a nurse Bottom line our earth is warming up What is cau My review is a call to action for anyone in healthcare in particular, as well as the general public I finishedSix Degrees Our Future on a Hotter Planetseveral days ago, but wanted to let the book s subject matter sit with me a few days before I wrote a review Plus, I ve been freakin busy There are many insightful reviews on the subject matter itself, so I m going to focuson what the book meant to me as a human, and as a nurse Bottom line our earth is warming up What is causing the warming, and how severe the warming wil...This text should be required reading for participation in the planetary exchange of resources i.e breathing, drinking, eating, excreting What Lynas has provided here is a comprehensive summary of international research on climate change and carbon emissions from a variety of perspectives and methodologies The result is a harrowing projection of the kinds of shifts in ecosystems around the world water tables, weather patterns, food production, biodiversity, ocean acidity that are likely t This text should be required reading for participation in the planetary exchange of resources i.e breathing, drinking, eating, excreting What Lynas has provided here is a comprehensive summary of intern...I read this book summarised in the Sunday Times when it was published in 2007 and have now read the full horror story Lynas is a journalist who has lived on a few different continents and now lives in UK, so he is better at communicating the science than many pure scientists He collected the papers and charts about what would progress if the world warmed as it was set to do, and presented the evidence of the effects per each degree upwards He largely succeeds in being unbiased, except to add I read this book summarised in the Sunday Times when it was published in 2007 and have now read the full horror story Lynas is a journalist who has lived on a few different continents and now lives in UK, so he is better at communicating the science than many pure scientists He collected the papers and charts about what would progress if the world warmed as it was set to do, and presented the evidence of the effects per each degree upwards He largely succeeds in being unbiased, except to add that he would like the planet to survive in its ...

• English
• 12 January 2017
Mark Lynas
• Paperback
• 358 pages
• 0007209045
• Mark Lynas
• Six Degrees