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Last winter, the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world, Porter Fox

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Last winter, the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world, Porter Fox

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eng

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Includes bibliographic references and index

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illustrationsphotographs

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index present

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non fiction

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Last winter

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bibliography

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Porter Fox

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the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world

Summary

As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything--from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world. This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys--each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in Northern Maine

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