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Heatstroke - Nature in an Age of Global Warming (Standard format, CD, 2nd ed.)
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In 2006, one of the hottest years on record, a "pizzly" was
discovered near the top of the world. Half polar bear, half
grizzly, this never-before-seen animal might be dismissed as a
fluke of nature. Anthony Barnosky instead sees it as a harbinger of
things to come. In "Heatstroke," the renowned paleoecologist shows
how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and
its creatures. While melting ice may have helped produce the
pizzly, climate change is more likely to wipe out species than to
create them. Plants and animals that have followed the same rhythms
for millennia are suddenly being confronted with a world they're
unprepared for--and adaptation usually isn't an option. This is not
the first time climate change has dramatically transformed Earth.
Barnosky draws connections between the coming centuries and the end
of the last ice age, when mass extinctions swept the planet. The
differences now are that climate change is faster and hotter than
past changes, and for the first time humanity is driving it. Which
means this time we can work to stop it. No one knows exactly what
nature will come to look like in this new age of global warming.
But "Heatstroke" gives us a haunting portrait of what we stand to
lose and the vitality of what can be saved.
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