The Icy Planet

Saving Earth's Refrigerator

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This book takes readers to Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains, to see what is happening to their ice, snow and permafrost. Ice and snow reflect solar energy back to space, keeping the planet cool. As global overheating melts them away, we are losing this refrigeration factor, which adds to global overheating. The author begins by laying out the evidence for carbon dioxide as the control knob of climate, and hence of sea level, for the past 1000 million years, before exploring the effects of climate change in the three main icy regions. He shows us how climate change will likely affect us and the planet as we approach the end of this century and beyond. His story ends by analysing how politics and economics are determining our response to global overheating, reminding readers of the enormous global challenges inherent in changing from a fossil fuel to a renewable energy infrastructure. There is no overnight solution. Can we save Earth's refrigerator? Will Net Zero work? Addressing these key questions Summerhayes is cautiously optimistic about our chances provided we have the collective will to act on what we know.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-30
Mått:165 x 236 x 38 mm
Vikt:789 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:472
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197627983

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Colin Summeryhayes is a chartered geologist and Emeritus Associate for the Scott Polar ResearchInstitute at Cambridge University. He previously served as Executive Director of the International Council for Science's Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research at the Scott Polar Research Institute. His most recent publications include Paleoclimatology (2020) and Earth's Climate Evolution (2015).

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In The Icy Planet, apart from offering the reader all they need to know about the world's coldest places, Colin Summerhayes addresses in well-researched and readable detail the role of ice as the bellwether of global warming. Fascinating and sometimes frightening, it examines the speed with which the frozen environment is being depleted, and the signals that sends out for the future of us all. This is a book both arresting and alarming.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Icehouse ClimatesChapter 3: East Antarctica - the World's Biggest Ice CubeChapter 4: West Antarctica and Dry ValleysChapter 5: The Antarctica Peninsula, the Falklands and South GeorgiaChapter 6: The ArcticChapter 7: The Third Pole - Mountain IceChapter 8: Rising SeasChapter 9: Our FutureEpilogueEnd Notes (references)List of Figure PermissionsIndex