Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
OCLC 76359874 | | |
| Followed by | The God Species | |
|---|---|---|
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (358 pages),
global warming. The book looks and attempts to summarize results from scientific papers on climate change
.
Contents
The first chapter describes the expected
pre-industrial
times.
The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of an increase of six Celsius degrees (6 °C) average global temperature. The effects are also compared to paleoclimatic studies, with six degrees of warming compared back to the Cretaceous. [citation needed]
Special coverage is given to the
food shortages, possibly leading to mass migration
of billions of people.
TV show
A
National Geographic Channel TV programme, Six Degrees Could Change The World,[1] was produced after the book won the Royal Society Prize in 2008.[2]
2020 Update
In April 2020, the author published a rewritten and updated version of the book: Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (
ISBN 978-0008308551).[3]
See also
- The Age of Stupid
- Environmental migrant
- Tipping point (climatology)
- Environmental issues with coral reefs
References
- YouTube
- ^ "Shortlisted entries". royalsociety.org. The Royal Society. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ Book announcement/promotion (independent source needed)
External links
- What will climate change do to our planet?, The Sunday Times, March 11, 2007. Summary of some of the book's key scenarios.
- Six steps to hell, The Guardian, 23 April 2007. Summary article by the book's author.
- "After Words interview with Lynas on Six Degrees, March 15, 2008". c-spanvideo.org. C-SPAN Video Library. February 5, 2008. Retrieved August 10, 2016.