Thin Ice - Softcover

Bowen, Mark

 
9780805081350: Thin Ice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805081356 ISBN 13: 9780805081350
Verlag: Holt Paperbacks, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

"One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."—Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books

The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death zone—the environment above eighteen thousand feet—than any man who has ever lived.

Scientist and expert climber Mark Bowen joined Thompson's crew on several expeditions; his exciting and brilliantly detailed narrative takes the reader deep inside retreating glaciers from China, across South America, and to Africa to unravel the mysteries of climate. Most important, we learn what Thompson's hard-won data reveals about global warming, the past, and the earth's probable future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A well-known scientist, alpinist, magazine and popular-science writer, Mark Bowen holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

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Verlag
Holt Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805081356
ISBN 13 
9780805081350
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
498
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