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<p>"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</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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
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- Author
- Lynas, Mark, 1973-
- Publisher
- New York: Picador: Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312303655
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (71 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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