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St. Martin's Press
October 2013
On Sale: October 12, 2013
ISBN: 0312546289
EAN: 9780312546281
Kindle: B00C74VC54
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Non-Fiction
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 they—and
by extension all Rocky Mountain ice—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.
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