num_pages: 320
description: One mans curiously thrilling joyride of travelogue history and climatology across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).As the planet warms winter is shrinking. In the last fifty 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%. 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 everythingfrom 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 journeyseach 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 changethat may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.
language: English
title: The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
publisher: Little, Brown and Company