Ebook {Epub PDF} Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas

 · Mark Lynas. 1, ratings reviews. 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 /5(). Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet Winner of the Royal Society Science books prize, and now translated into 23 languages. Six Degrees maps our humankind’s globally-warmed future – degree by horrifying degree. by Mark Lynas. (, National Geographic) ISBN Number: In , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a landmark report projecting average global surface temperatures to rise between ° and ° Celsius (roughly 2 .

A Summary of Conclusions from ˝Six Degrees Our Life on a Hotter Planet ˛ by Mark Lynas In Mark Lynas ˇ book he outlines the effects on the planet of climate change equivalent to a global temperature rise of one, two, three, four, five and six degrees with reference to a vast library of scientific reports and study. What follows attempts. The item Six degrees: our future on a hotter planet, Mark Lynas represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library. This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. Alien as it all sounds, Mark Lynas's incredible new book is not science-fiction; nor is it sensationalist. The six degrees of the title refer to the terrifying possibility that average temperatures will rise by up to six degrees within the next hundred years.

Six degrees Our future on a hotter planet. Mark Lynas, Book - In accessible journalistic prose, author Lynas distills what environmental scientists predict about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years, degree by degree. At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet Winner of the Royal Society Science books prize, and now translated into 23 languages. Six Degrees maps our humankind’s globally-warmed future – degree by horrifying degree. `Scientists predict that global temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees over the course of this century and Mark Lynas paints a chilling, degree-by-degree picture of the devastation likely to ensue unless we act now "Six Degrees" is a rousing and vivid plea to choose a different future.'.