Bibliograph

Thin ice, unlocking the secrets of climate in the world's highest mountains, Mark Bowen

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Thin ice, unlocking the secrets of climate in the world's highest mountains, Mark Bowen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-443) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Thin ice

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

58386288

Responsibility statement

Mark Bowen

Review

"While mainstream science has focused on polar ice to find clues about climate change, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator. In the process he has changed the science of climatology." "Scientist and expert climber Mark Bowen joined Thompson's crew on several expeditions, including an eye-opening ascent in East Africa that revealed why the snows of Kilimanjaro will be gone in fifteen years. Bowen also includes an account of the dangerous Huascaran ascent where Thompson's discovery of an unknown type of glacial ice revealed how pieces of the global climate puzzle fit together. Bowen also takes us deep inside retreating glaciers from China and the Tibetan Plateau across South America's Andes and to Africa."

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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 10.0, 33.0, 107092.

Sub title

unlocking the secrets of climate in the world's highest mountains

Summary

"Thin Ice explains what Thompson's hard-won data tell us about climate systems that have long perplexed the scientific community. Even more important, we learn what the equatorial ice reveals about global warming and the earth's probable future."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

I: The Sajama expedition -- The mountain God -- An island in the sky -- II: Early days -- Where next? -- Beginnings -- A decade on Quelccaya -- III: The warming sets in -- First signs -- The great experiment -- Temperature follows suit -- China opens up -- IV: The essence of life -- A city by a lake -- The seesaw -- V: More pieces for the puzzle -- Casting about -- From Tibet ... -- ... to Peru -- Altering the course of thinking -- Pushing back the bar -- Solving the mercer problem -- Endurance and tragedy on Dasuopu -- VI: Kilimanjaro -- Scratching the surface -- Drilling deeper -- The story in the snows

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