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Discover the crucial insights in 'Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers' by Jorge Daniel Taillant, a seminal work exploring the impacts of melting glaciers on our planet. This compelling book sheds light on how climate change is accelerating the disintegration of these massive ice bodies, which hold a staggering three-quarters of the world's freshwater. As we witness the continual loss of ice from Antarctica and the Arctic, it's vital to understand how these changes affect our daily lives, sea levels, and global ecosystems.
In 'Meltdown', Taillant delves into the cryosphere, providing clarity on the little-known periglacial environments and their significance amidst the ongoing climate crisis. With comprehensive research and engaging narratives, this book illustrates the intricate relationship between glacier melt and environmental stability, offering an urgent call for action to protect these vital resources.
Learn about how research illustrates that receding glaciers not only threaten coastal communities with flooding but also destabilize weather patterns, disrupt ocean currents, and jeopardize our natural ecosystems. Published by Oxford University Press USA and comprising 296 pages of essential reading, 'Meltdown' is an important addition for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching effects.
ACT NOW to understand the implications of melting glaciers and take informed steps towards environmental advocacy. This title comes brand new, with ISBN 978080327 and qualifies for FREE shipping within 15 days from our Auckland warehouse, ensuring no unexpected import charges or customs duties. Protect our planet by being informed.
NOTE: Shipping for this item is FREE, please allow 15 days for shipping. As its shipped from our Auckland warehouse there is no unexpected import charges, custom duties or taxes.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780190080327
Year: 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Pages: 296
Description:
We hear about pieces of ice the size of continents breaking off of Antarctica, rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and ice sheets in the Arctic crumbling to the sea, but does it really matter? Will melting glaciers change our lives? Absolutely.Glaciers are built and destroyed during ice ages and interglacial periods. These massive ice bodies hold three quarters of our freshwater, yet we don't have laws to protect them
from climate change. When they melt, they increase sea levels, alter the Earth's reflectivity, wreak havoc for ocean and air currents, destabilize global ecosystems, warm our climate, and bring on floods that swamp
millions of acres of coastal land. The critical ecological role they play to keep our global climate stable, and the environmental functions they provide, wither. And, as climate change warms glacier cores, collapsing glacier ice triggers tsunamis that send deadly massive ice blocks, rocks, earth, and billions of liters of water rushing down mountain valleys. It has happened before in the Himalayas, the Central Andes, the Rockies and Western Cascades, and the European Alps, and it will happen
again.In his new book Meltdown, Jorge Daniel Taillant takes readers deeper into the cryosphere, connecting the dots between climate change, glacier melt, and the impacts that
receding glacier ice brings to livability on Earth, to our environments, and to our communities. Taillant walks us through the little-known realm of the periglacial environment, a world of invisible subsurface rock glaciers that will outlive exposed glaciers as climate change destroys surface ice. He also looks at actions that can help stop clim
In 'Meltdown', Taillant delves into the cryosphere, providing clarity on the little-known periglacial environments and their significance amidst the ongoing climate crisis. With comprehensive research and engaging narratives, this book illustrates the intricate relationship between glacier melt and environmental stability, offering an urgent call for action to protect these vital resources.
Learn about how research illustrates that receding glaciers not only threaten coastal communities with flooding but also destabilize weather patterns, disrupt ocean currents, and jeopardize our natural ecosystems. Published by Oxford University Press USA and comprising 296 pages of essential reading, 'Meltdown' is an important addition for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching effects.
ACT NOW to understand the implications of melting glaciers and take informed steps towards environmental advocacy. This title comes brand new, with ISBN 978080327 and qualifies for FREE shipping within 15 days from our Auckland warehouse, ensuring no unexpected import charges or customs duties. Protect our planet by being informed.
NOTE: Shipping for this item is FREE, please allow 15 days for shipping. As its shipped from our Auckland warehouse there is no unexpected import charges, custom duties or taxes.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780190080327
Year: 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Pages: 296
Description:
We hear about pieces of ice the size of continents breaking off of Antarctica, rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and ice sheets in the Arctic crumbling to the sea, but does it really matter? Will melting glaciers change our lives? Absolutely.Glaciers are built and destroyed during ice ages and interglacial periods. These massive ice bodies hold three quarters of our freshwater, yet we don't have laws to protect them
from climate change. When they melt, they increase sea levels, alter the Earth's reflectivity, wreak havoc for ocean and air currents, destabilize global ecosystems, warm our climate, and bring on floods that swamp
millions of acres of coastal land. The critical ecological role they play to keep our global climate stable, and the environmental functions they provide, wither. And, as climate change warms glacier cores, collapsing glacier ice triggers tsunamis that send deadly massive ice blocks, rocks, earth, and billions of liters of water rushing down mountain valleys. It has happened before in the Himalayas, the Central Andes, the Rockies and Western Cascades, and the European Alps, and it will happen
again.In his new book Meltdown, Jorge Daniel Taillant takes readers deeper into the cryosphere, connecting the dots between climate change, glacier melt, and the impacts that
receding glacier ice brings to livability on Earth, to our environments, and to our communities. Taillant walks us through the little-known realm of the periglacial environment, a world of invisible subsurface rock glaciers that will outlive exposed glaciers as climate change destroys surface ice. He also looks at actions that can help stop clim