{"product_id":"six-degrees-isbn-9781426203855","title":"Six Degrees","description":"Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, \u003ci\u003eSix Degrees\u003c\/i\u003e is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling \u003ci\u003eAn Inconvenient Truth\u003c\/i\u003e or Ross Gelbspan's \u003ci\u003eBoiling Point\u003c\/i\u003e will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eHigh Tide\u003c\/i\u003e, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report projecting average global surface temperatures to rise between 1.4 degrees and 5.8 degrees Celsius (roughly 2 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. Based on this forecast, author Mark Lynas outlines what to expect from a warming world, degree by degree. At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. A 3-degree rise would spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, disappearance of Greenland's ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa. A 6-degree increase would eliminate most life on Earth, including much of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on authoritative scientific articles, the latest computer models, and information about past warm events in Earth history, \u003ci\u003eSix Degrees\u003c\/i\u003e promises to be an eye-opening warning that humanity will ignore at its peril.Mark Lynas, a journalist, campaigner, and broadcast commentator on environmental issues, is the author of \u003ci\u003eHigh Tide: News from a Warming World.\u003c\/i\u003e He is a contributor to periodicals including \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, Ecologist, Granta,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGeographical,\u003c\/i\u003e and to the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e newspapers in the United Kingdom.","brand":"National Geographic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301527474405,"sku":"NP9781426203855","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/six-degrees-isbn-9781426203855","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}