The No Logo of climate change – a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened on a global scale.Climate change is not a concern for the future. It's happening right now. In this book – based on the latest scientific evidence – the author takes us around the world to show the impact of global warming already being felt in people's lives.From sand-buried houses in China to thawing Alaskan plains, the author witnesses some of the worst effects of climate change at first hand. Some, like the floods in the UK, are near home. Others – like the drowning Pacific island of Tuvalu – are a world away from the exhaust pipes and factory chimneys that are actually causing global warming.But this isn't simply an inventory of disaster, it's a wry look at how people around the globe are coping as their world changes at unprecedented speed. In the process, the author eats whale blubber in Alaska, swims in shark-infested waters off the Great Barrier Reef and struggles to the top of Andean peaks in Peru. An adventure with a conscience and an argument with an urgent purpose, High Tide is an extremely important book.
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Mark Lynas. High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet
High Tide. How climate crisis is engulfing our planet. Mark Lynas
Table of Contents
Prologue
1 Britain’s Wet Season
THE ‘SMOKING GUN’?
MONMOUTH, FEBRUARY 2002
SNOW PLACE TO GO
YORK, FEBRUARY 2002
2 Baked Alaska
SHISHMAREF
HUSLIA
Polar warming
PRUDHOE BAY
KAKTOVIK
3 Pacific Paradise Lost
FUNAFUTI ATOLL
HIGH TIDE
FAITH AND SCIENCE
TEPUKA SAVILIVILI
4 Red Clouds in China
DUOLUN, INNER MONGOLIA
DONGSHENG, INNER MONGOLIA
WUWEI, GANSU PROVINCE
5 Hurricane USA
NORTH CAROLINA
FLORIDA
NEW JERSEY
6 Peru’s Melting Point
QOLLYUR RITI
JACABAMBA
LIMA
7 Feeling the Heat
BONN, JULY 2001
THE WAY OUT
1. Ratify and implement the Kyoto Protocol
2. Sign up to ‘contraction and convergence’
3. Stop all exploration and development of new oil, coal and gas
4. Take personal action to reduce emissions
5. Keep repeating the climate change message
PARTING WORDS
Epilogue: Six Degrees
Afterword
APPENDIX: Campaigns and Contacts
CAMPAIGNS
BOOKS
RESOURCES
FILM
Notes. 1: Britain’s Wet Season
2: Baked Alaska
3: Pacific Paradise Lost
4: Red Clouds in China
5: Hurricane USA
6: Peru’s Melting Point
7: Feeling the Heat
Epilogue
Afterword
Index
P.S
In Conversation
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For my family
Title Page
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The story is the same with floods. In a high-emissions scenario, the report envisages an increase in winter rainfall by a third, and a doubling of intense downpours. In a low-emissions scenario – with less greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and reduced global warming – winter rainfall might rise by only a twentieth.42
