TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fox,Porter
TI  - The last winter: the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world 
SN  - 9780316460927
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Fox, Porter
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Winter
KW  - Environmental monitoring
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographic references (pages 295-297) and index; The Fires -- It started in Cougar Flats -- The bird is sick -- The transfer of energy -- Obelisks of time -- The final question -- The Icefield -- The law of high latitudes -- Life and the living dead inside the glacier -- The enchanted divide -- The 10,000-year window -- The Alps -- The great melt has arrived -- The big picture -- The ice city -- The lost and found memories office -- White Earth -- A bad omen -- A brief history of death and survival -- The lark's foot -- Nancy Pelosi goes to Swiss camp -- Club Aurora -- The world is brutal - be happy you are not dead yet
N2  - 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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