词条 | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet |
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| name = Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | title_orig = | translator = | image = Six Degrees Our Future on a Hotter Planet.jpg | author = Mark Lynas | cover_artist = | country = Great Britain | language = English | series = | genre = Science, Non-fiction | publisher = Fourth Estate | release_date = 2007, 2008 in USA | media_type = Print (Paperback) | pages = 358p. | isbn = 978-0-00-720905-7 | oclc = 76359874 | preceded_by = | followed_by = The God Species }} Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (358 pages), {{ISBN|978-0-00-720905-7}} is a 2007 (2008 in USA) non-fiction book by author Mark Lynas about global warming. The book looks and attempts to summarize results from scientific papers on climate change. ContentsThe first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree (°C) increase in average global temperature since 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 six degrees(°) average global temperature. The effects are also compared to paleoclimatic studies, with six degrees of warming compared back to the Cretaceous. {{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} Special coverage is given to the positive feedback mechanisms that could dramatically accelerate climate change. The book explains how the release of methane hydrate and the release of methane from melting permafrost could unleash a major extinction event. Carbon cycle feedbacks, the demise of coral, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and extreme desertification are also described, with five or six degrees of warming potentially leading to the complete uninhabitability of the tropics and subtropics, as well as extreme water and food shortages, possibly leading to mass migration of billions of people. TV showA 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] See also
References{{more citations needed|article|date=May 2014}}1. ^{{YouTube|R_pb1G2wIoA|Six degrees could change the world}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/awards/science-books/all-shortlisted/|title=Shortlisted entries|website=royalsociety.org|accessdate=2014-04-11|publisher=The Royal Society}} External links
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