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World Without Ice

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ISBN-10: 1583334076

ISBN-13: 9781583334072

Edition: 2010

Authors: Henry Pollack, Al Gore

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A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet's imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relationship between people and ice has received little focus-until now. As one of the world's leading experts on climate change, Henry Pollack provides an accessible, comprehensive survey of ice as a force of nature, and the potential consequences as we face the possibility of a world without ice. A World Without Icetraces the effect of mountain glaciers on supplies of drinking water and agricultural irrigation, as well as the current results of melting permafrost and shrinking Arctic sea ice-a situation that has degraded the…    
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.92" wide x 8.95" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Politician and businessman Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948. In 1969, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Harvard College. He represented Tennessee in the House of Representatives from 1977-1985 and the Senate from 1985-1993. He was Vice-President of the United States from 1993-2001. He is currently the president of Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, director on the board of Apple Inc., and senior advisor to Google Inc. He lectures on the topic of global warming awareness and prevention and starred in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize…    

Foreword
Preface
Discovering Ice
Ice And Life: On Earth and Beyond
When Ice Ruled the World
Warming Up
Nature at Work
Human Footprints
Melting Ice, Rising Seas
Choices Amid Change
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index