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High Tide - The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (Paperback, 1st Picador ed)
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High Tide - The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (Paperback, 1st Picador ed)
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"President Bush and his Administration have risen to the global
warming challenge with responses ranging from obfuscation to
pretense to outright denial...I'd like to issue each and every one
of them a challenge. Come with me--see what I have seen--and try to
understand what global warming really means for us and for our
children. Leave Washington and travel to the places I have
visited..."--From the Preface
A glacier disappears high in the Peruvian Andes. Floodwaters surge
across the English countryside. Ten thousand Pacific Islanders
begin to evacuate their homeland. A dust storm turns day into night
across the Inner Mongolian plains. These events may seem unrelated,
but they are not. Even as scientists and other experts debate the
specifics, climate crisis is already affecting the lives of
millions.
In this ground-breaking book, Mark Lynas reveals the first
evidence--collected during an epic three-year journey across five
continents--about how global warming is hitting people's lives all
around the world. From American hurricane chasers to Mongolian
herders, from Alaskan Eskimos to South Sea islanders, Lynas's
encounters and discoveries give us a stark warning about the even
worse dangers that lie ahead if nothing is done.
High Tide's message is urgent and its revelations are at once
shocking and inspiring--shocking as so few of us yet realize the
magnitude of what's happening, and inspiring as there is still time
to avert much greater catastrophe. No one who reads this book will
be able to look their children in the eyes and say "I didn't know."
As global temperatures soar to record levels, Lynas bears witness
to:
- CRIPPLING DROUGHT: China's Yellow River no longer reaches the sea
for half the year, and villages across the north of the country are
disappearing under advancing sand dunes
- BAKED ALASKA: Permafrost is melting, leaving houses, roads and
whole forests sucked into the thawing ground. Winter is in retreat,
leaving animals confused and Native Alaskan people without a
livelihood
- DISAPPEARING GLACIERS: Every glaciated mountain range on Earth is
experiencing massive ice losses. Montana's Glacier National Park
has lost 100 glaciers in the last century; only 50 remain. Water
supplies to hundreds of millions of people--from Peru to
Pakistan--are threatened
- HIGH TIDES: Islanders on the tiny South Pacific nation of Tuvalu
are already leaving their homeland as rising sea levels engulf
their atolls. Today 70 percent of the world's sandy shorelines are
retreating; up to 90 percent of the beaches on the Eastern U.S.
seaboard are eroding fast
- CATASTROPHIC FLOODS: English villagers now talk about a "wet
season" rather than a winter. Heavier rainfall is now falling
across the global mid-latitudes, from the continental U.S. to
Russia, sparking devastating floods on an ever more frequent basis.
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