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9780415946551

Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415946551

  • ISBN10:

    0415946557

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-03-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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From the thawing Arctic to the rising shoreline of Manhattan, people are feeling the effects of global warming in ways hardly imagined just a few years ago.Feeling the Heattakes readers to the hot spots where global warming is not just a scientific debate but a matter of survival. Richly illustrated with photographs from around the world, the book captures the most dramatic evidence from the front lines of climate change: the glaciers of Montana's Glacier National Park may well be gone in 30 years; Australia's Great Barrier Reef is threatened with extinction as warming waters kill coral around the world; the entire ocean nation of Fiji is disappearing under rising tides; breathing the air in southern India is equivalent to smoking twenty cigarettes a day. Even the retaining wall of the former World Trade Center--merely ten feet above sea level--may have to be raised before new construction can begin. Many consequences are subtle and indirect, like the rise in malaria as mosquitoesproliferate or the increase in violent storms around the world. Traveling the globe with some of the world's most respected observers of global warming,Feeling the Heatis a vivid portrait of the people coping day to day with climactic disruptions.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Introductionp. 1
Human Impacts
China: The Cost of Coalp. 11
Europe: Planning Aheadp. 25
Greater New York: Urban Anxietyp. 39
Antigua and Barbuda: Islands under Siegep. 61
Asia: Clouds Got in the Wayp. 79
Photo Essay: Witness to a Warming World
Ecosytems in Trouble
Alaska and the Western Arctic: The Ice Retreatsp. 95
The California Coast: Marine Migrations and the Collapsing Food Chainp. 111
Australia, Florida, and Fiji: Reefs at Riskp. 127
Pacific Northwest: The Incredible Shrinking Glaciersp. 141
Antarctica: The Ice Is Movingp. 157
Author Biographiesp. 173
Endnotesp. 177
About E Magazinep. 183
Indexp. 185
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