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Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
Contributor(s): Bowen, Mark (Author)

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ISBN: 0805081356     ISBN-13: 9780805081350
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE: $26.60  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2000
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Annotation: "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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
- Sports & Recreation | Mountaineering
Dewey: 551.514
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (1.40 lbs) 496 pages
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 107092
Reading Level: 10.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 33.0
 
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Bowen, Mark: - MARK BOWEN is a writer and physicist. He earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in physics at MIT and worked for a decade in the medical industry. Bowen has written for Climbing, Natural History, Science, Technology Review, and AMC Outdoors. He has been embedded in AMANDA and IceCube since 1998. He lives in Vermont. The Telescope in the Ice is his third book.
 
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