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As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years,
the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring
snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United States
have decreased by nearly half since 1982. On average, winter has
shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply
researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book,
journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern
Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change
and how it will literally change everything-from rapid sea level
rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive
greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and several
climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our
world. This original research is animated by four harrowing and
illuminating journeys-each grounded by interviews with
idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and
Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in northern
Maine. Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last
Winter showcases a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate
change-which may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years,
the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring
snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United States
have decreased by nearly half since 1982. On average, winter has
shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply
researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book,
journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern
Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change
and how it will literally change everything-from rapid sea level
rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive
greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and several
climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our
world. This original research is animated by four harrowing and
illuminating journeys-each grounded by interviews with
idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and
Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in northern
Maine. Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last
Winter showcases a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate
change-which may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years,
the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring
snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United States
have decreased by nearly half since 1982. On average, winter has
shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply
researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book,
journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern
Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change
and how it will literally change everything-from rapid sea level
rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive
greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and several
climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our
world. This original research is animated by four harrowing and
illuminating journeys-each grounded by interviews with
idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and
Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in northern
Maine. Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last
Winter showcases a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate
change-which may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.
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