| Description |
xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The fires. It started in Cougar Flats ; The bird is sick ; The transfer of energy ; Odelisks of time ; The final questions -- The icefield. The law of high latitudes ; Life and the living dead inside the glacier ; The enchanted divide ; The 10,000-year window -- The Alps. The great melt has arrived ; The big picture ; The ice city ; The lost and found memories office -- White Earth. A bad omen ; A brief history of death and survival ; The lark's foot ; Nancy Pelosi goes to Swiss camp ; Club Aurora ; This world is brutal-- be happy you are not dead yet. |
| Summary |
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last 50 years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30 percent. 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 a half dozen 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 will showcase a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate change — that may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Subject |
Fox, Porter -- Travel.
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Climatic changes.
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Winter.
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Environmental monitoring.
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| Genre |
Creative nonfiction.
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| ISBN |
9780316460927 (hardcover) |
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0316460923 (hardcover) |
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