Thin Ice Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains

Name: Thin Ice Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
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ISBN: 9780805081350

ISBN-10: 0805081356

ISBN-13: 9780805081350

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark Bowen

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"One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."--Bill McKibben, "The New York Review of Books"" "The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death zone--the environment above eighteen thousand feet--than any man…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 10/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Prologue: A Call from the Blue



The Sajama Expedition



The Mountain God



An Island in the Sky



Early Days



Where Next?



Beginnings



A Decade on Quelccaya



The Warming Sets In



First Signs



The Great Experiment



Temperature Follows Suit



China Opens Up



The Essence of Life



A City by a Lake



The Seesaw



More Pieces for the Puzzle



Casting About



From Tibet...



...To Peru



Altering the Course of Thinking



Pushing Back the Bar



Solving the Mercer Problem



Endurance and Tragedy on Dasuopu



Kilimanjaro



Scratching the Surface



Drilling Deeper



The Story in the Snows


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index