Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change

Motavalli, Jim (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0415946565 / ISBN 13: 9780415946568

Published by Routledge, New York, 2004

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xii, 194 pp. First printing. Seller Inventory # 023024

Bibliographic Details

Title: Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the ...

Publisher: Routledge, New York

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting, sea level is rising, species are losing their habitats, and temperature records are being broken. Feeling the Heat consists of chapter-length visits by well-known authors to actual world "hot" spots, where people are already coping day-to-day with the consequences of climactic disruption. The locations for the book were strategically chosen because each represents a separate and important global warming impact, such as rising tides, melting glaciers, evolving ecosystems and air pollution. Feeling the Heat takes global warming out of the realm of armchair speculation and arcane scientific debate, revealing the process of climate change to be ongoing, serious and immediate.

Review:

"This disturbing report, by a brilliant team of environmental journalists, portrays an industrial civilization on the verge of destroying its own conditions of existence. We are all captives, the authors warn us, on a runaway train. Can we change drivers soon enough to avoid the largest catastrophe in the last 10,000 years?." -Mike Davis, author of "Ecology of Fear and "Dead Cities