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The Melting World
A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers
by Christopher White
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Pub Date
Sep 03 2013
| Archive Date
Oct 03 2013
Description
Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they—and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice—will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.
Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to...
Description
Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they—and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice—will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.
A Note From the Publisher
CHRISTOPHER WHITE has written several books, including Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen, and written for National Geographic, Exploration, and other publications. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
CHRISTOPHER WHITE has written several books, including Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen, and written for National Geographic, Exploration, and other publications. He lives...
A Note From the Publisher
CHRISTOPHER WHITE has written several books, including Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen, and written for National Geographic, Exploration, and other publications. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Advance Praise
"An act of witness to a disappearing world, and an
implicit call to action to save what we can, this book is a great gift to us
all!"—Bill McKibben, author Oil and Honey: The Making of an
Unlikely Activist
“The Melting World is both a hymn of
praise and a requiem for the passing beauty of alpine snowfields. In the
tradition of John McPhee and Norman Maclean, Christopher White chronicles the
men and women racing against climate change to understand the mysteries of the
frozen world, even as it inexorably disappears from view. Rich in vivid detail
and lovely prose, White's gorgeous and heartbreaking book will appeal to
adventurers and scientists and anyone else who cares for our beloved
planet.”—McKay Jenkins, author of The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an
Avalanche Zone
"An act of witness to a disappearing world, and an implicit call to action to save what we can, this book is a great gift to us all!"—Bill McKibben, author Oil and Honey: The Making of an...
Advance Praise
"An act of witness to a disappearing world, and an
implicit call to action to save what we can, this book is a great gift to us
all!"—Bill McKibben, author Oil and Honey: The Making of an
Unlikely Activist
“The Melting World is both a hymn of
praise and a requiem for the passing beauty of alpine snowfields. In the
tradition of John McPhee and Norman Maclean, Christopher White chronicles the
men and women racing against climate change to understand the mysteries of the
frozen world, even as it inexorably disappears from view. Rich in vivid detail
and lovely prose, White's gorgeous and heartbreaking book will appeal to
adventurers and scientists and anyone else who cares for our beloved
planet.”—McKay Jenkins, author of The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an
Avalanche Zone
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780312546281 |
| PRICE |
$34.99 (USD)
|
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