Science Library

Six degrees : our future on a hotter planet
Author:     Mark Lynas
Publisher:     National Geographic, 2008
Call number:     QC981.8.G56L987S, Lee Wee Nam Library, (Level 4), Science Collection

By the end of this century, the planet will heat up between 1.4[degree] and 5.8[degree] Celsius, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Six degrees may not sound like much, but as this sobering, engrossing, up-to-the-minute books warns, a six-degree rise in Earth’s average temperature would be enough to reshape our world almost beyond recognition. Degree by degree, chapter by chapter, Mark Lynas explains the processes and examines the effects of this unprecedented phenomenon, drawing on a full range of state-of-the-art research and sophisticated computer models that show conclusively that today’s climate change is a new and different challenge, not a routine swing of a slow and climatic pendulum.
Cover image from Syndetics Solutions, Inc., summary from book jacket

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