A clear-eyed explanation of the impact of ice on Earth, its climate, and its residents.
Also the author of Uncertain Science...
Uncertain World, he lives in Ann Arbor..
Pollack has been a professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan for more than forty years and now serves as a science adviser to Al Gore\'s Climate Project training programs.
About the Author: Henry Pollack, Ph D, and his colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Core.
A World Without Ice explains why ice matters, and lays out the urgent actions we can take to restore Earth\'s delicate climate balance.
Catastrophic possibilities loom, including rising sea levels and subsequent flooding of low-lying regions worldwide.
This important and increasingly relevant book traces 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 habitat of numerous animals and sparked an international race for seabed oil and minerals.
Whether sculpting mountains, regulating temperatures, influencing ocean currents, or defining the limits of human settlement, ice has shaped - and continues to shape - the World we live in.
With clarity and insight, geophysicist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Henry Pollack, paints a compelling portrait of the delicate geological balance between Earth and its ice, and shows why the current rapid loss of ice portends serious consequences in our not-so-distant future.
Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relationship between people and ice has received little focus, until now - and there is a fierce urgency as the problem accelerates.
A clear-eyed explanation of the impact of ice on Earth, its climate, and its residents
