From the thawing Arctic to the rising shoreline of Manhattan,
people are feeling the effects of global warming in ways hardly
imagined just a few years ago. "Feeling the Heat" takes readers to
the hot spots where global warming is not just a scientific debate
but a matter of survival.
Richly illustrated with photographs from around the world, the
book captures the most dramatic evidence from the front lines of
climate change: the glaciers of Montana's Glacier National Park may
well be gone in 30 years; Australia's Great Barrier Reef is
threatened with extinction as warming waters kill coral around the
world; the entire ocean nation of Fiji is disappearing under rising
tides; breathing the air in southern India is equivalent to smoking
twenty cigarettes a day. Even the retaining wall of the former
World Trade Center--merely ten feet above sea level--may have to be
raised before new construction can begin.
Many consequences are subtle and indirect, like the rise in
malaria as mosquitoes proliferate or the increase in violent storms
around the world. Traveling the globe with some of the world's most
respected observers of global warming, "Feeling the Heat" is a
vivid portrait of the people coping day to day with climactic
disruptions.
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