Farewell to Ice - Wadhams, Peter
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Most of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century. As Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea ice, demonstrates in this book, even this bleak assessment of the future is grossly optimistic. Wadhams has visited the Polar Regions more often than any other living scientist - 50 times since he was on the first ship to circumnavigate the Americas in 1970 - and has a uniquely authoritative perspective on the changes they have undergone and where those changes will lead. From his observations and the latest scientific research, he describes how dramatically sea ice has diminished over the past three decades, to the point at which, by the time this book is published, the Arctic may be free of ice for the first time in 10,000 years. Wadhams shows how sea ice is the 'canary in the mine' of planetary climate change. He describes how it forms and the vital role it plays in reflecting solar heat back into space and providing an 'air conditioning...
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2016Uitgever: Central Book House / PEN239 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 234x153x23ISBN-10: 0241009413ISBN-13: 9780241009413Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2016, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Wadhams, Peter] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Allen Lane] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: A Farewell to Ice / A Report from the Arctic]
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XV, 240 pagina's. Hardcover met stofomslag London, Allen Lane 2016 [Auteur: Wadhams, Peter] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: A farewell to ice : a report from the arctic.]
