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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Lynas |
ISBN: | 9780007209057 0007209053 |
OCLC Number: | 851765417 |
Language Note: | English. |
Awards: | Winner of Royal Society Prize for Science Books: General Prize 2008 |
Target Audience: | General (US: Trade). |
Description: | 288 pages ; 20 x 13 cm |
Responsibility: | Mark Lynas. |
Abstract:
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
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'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.' Daily Mail 'The saga of how, in the world as imagined by thousands of computer-modelling studies, global warming kicks in degree by degree. "Six Degrees", I tell you now, is terrifying.' Sunday Times 'Brilliant and higly readable.' Sunday Times Read more...
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