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Loading... Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains (2005)by Mark Bowen
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is about 5 books in one - the story of the career of scientist Lonnie Thompson, the history of the discovery of global warming, a mountaineering book, anthropoligical study of the rise and fall of civilizations due to climate, and a history of the political debates. Most entertaining book on global warming I've read. no reviews | add a review
"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. No library descriptions found. |
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A bit of an anticlimax near the end, though, when Bowen deplores the 'unaesthetic' effect of global warming for mountaineers in the final pages more than delineating the catastrophic consequences for the whole world.