The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing

The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers
- Used Book in Good Condition
Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that theyâ‚¬â€¢and by extension all Rocky Mountain iceâ‚¬â€¢will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.
Country USA
Brand St. Martins Press-3PL
Manufacturer St. Martin's Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2013-09-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780312546281

The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers