A farewell to ice : a report from the Arctic /

A farewell to ice : a report from the Arctic / Peter Wadhams.

"Based on five decades of research and observation, a haunting and unsparing look at the melting ice caps, and what their disappearance will mean. Peter Wadhams has been studying ice first-hand since 1970, completing 50 trips to the world's poles and observing for himself the changes over...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Wadhams, P. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Sea ice > Arctic regions.
Ice > Arctic regions.
Climatic changes > Arctic regions.
Climatic changes.
Ecology.
Ice.
Sea ice.
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions.
Arctic Regions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a blue Arctic
  • Ice, the magic crystal
  • A brief history of ice on planet Earth
  • The modern cycle of ice ages
  • The greenhouse effect
  • Sea ice meltback begins
  • The future of Arctic sea ice : the death spiral
  • The accelerating effects of Arctic feedbacks
  • Arctic methane, a catastrophe in the making
  • Strange weather
  • The secret life of chimneys
  • What's happening to the Antarctic?
  • The state of the planet
  • A call to arms.

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