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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet [Kindle Edition]

Mark Lynas
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‘Scientists predict that global temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees over the course of this century and Mark Lynas paints a chilling, degree-by-degree picture of the devastation likely to ensue unless we act now…“Six Degrees” is a rousing and vivid plea to choose a different future.’ Daily Mail

‘The saga of how, in the world as imagined by thousands of computer-modelling studies, global warming kicks in degree by degree. “Six Degrees”, I tell you now, is terrifying.’ Sunday Times

‘Brilliant and higly readable.’ Sunday Times

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`This book is not for the faint-hearted...Lynas gives us something think about.'

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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An interesting easy to read book. I'm relatively well informed with regards to climate change and issues of sustainability so nothing in this book should really come as a surprise. Nevertheless its discomforting to have it laid out so clearly. This book is worth reading and passing to people who need nudging and their eyes open.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fascinating 12 Dec 2009
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This is a fascinating glimpse of the future. Glad I will not live to see most of it. I will now try to find the counter arguments.
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Essential reading 4 Nov 2009
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This important book should be compulsory reading in all secondary schools, colleges and, most of all, by all politicians.
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Informative
I am neither a green hippie or a climate change denier so I read this with an open mind.

This book is well written, each chapter covers the possibilities based on each 1... Read more
Published 25 days ago by Quality Guy
A different approach with some merit.
The book attempts to show how different rises in temperature for the century will affect us.

It is readable and informative, and thought-provoking. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Acts5v29
Required reading
This book should be read by everyone who cares what happens to humanity and our planet. Utterly terrifying, but presented in a reasoned and scientific way.
Published 15 months ago by NickyD
More than a degree of understanding
As Lynas says, most people have no idea what the rises in the temperature might mean. And nor did I till I read his book. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jacques Dutronc
A Wake up call that has come too late
The first few chapters will keep me away at night for sometime (A rise of 1-2). Given that the author's option noting can be done to avoid these. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Brace, Brace, Brace
Six Degrees or how to take care of our planet
Six degrees very clearly shows life on earth in the near future if we keep boosting global warming.
Time to read it and then act accordingly.
Published 18 months ago by TDP
Scary stuff
I've read many climate change books and this is up there with the best. I initially distrusted the book because it was written by a journalist and not a scientist but it soon... Read more
Published 19 months ago by rhysthomashello
Useful guide to what a degree of warming really means
Although the book is two years old as I write this review, it is still current and worth reading. Most books on climate change describe the dangers of warming in a more general... Read more
Published 20 months ago by J. Lawrence
Six Degrees
Everybody should read this book, as it shows what has happened and why, what is happening now, and what WILL happen IF we dont do something about the problem now, all Americans... Read more
Published on 26 May 2010 by George Robinson
Fiction
Like much of the IPPC reports, this book draws heavily on the work of political advocacy groups. Does it matter if the science is cherry picked so long as it suits your personal... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2010 by Sean Houlihane
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At the end of the last ice age, for example, global sea levels shot up by a metre every twenty years for a period of four centuries, drowning tropical coral reefs in Hawaii and submerging low-lying coasts. This dramatic flood, termed Meltwater Pulse 1a by scientists, occurred 14,000 years ago as the giant ice sheets of the last glacial age finally crumbled and gave way to the warmer Holocene. &quote;
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