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Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
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by Mark Bowen

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"One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."--Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books

The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death zone--the environment above eighteen thousand feet--than any man who has ever lived.

Scientist and expert climber Mark Bowen joined Thompson's crew on several expeditions; his exciting and brilliantly detailed narrative takes the reader deep inside retreating glaciers from China, across South America, and to Africa to unravel the mysteries of climate. Most important, we learn what Thompson's hard-won data reveals about global warming, the past, and the earth's probable future.

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  • Title Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
  • Author Mark Bowen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York
  • Publication date 2006-10-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780805081350 / 0805081356
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Atmosphere, Climatic changes - Research
  • Dewey Decimal Code 551.514

About the author

A well-known scientist, alpinist, magazine and popular-science writer, Mark Bowen holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

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