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Record #168321:

Warning from a warming world / Mark Lynas.

Title: Warning from a warming world / Mark Lynas.
Author(s): Lynas, Mark.
Date: 2004.
In: Geographical. (2004.), Vol. 76(5) (2004)
Abstract: Illustrated account of three-year project across five continents to gather first-hand evidence of global warming. Presents a view more personal and anecdotal than scientific. Includes comparison of Jacabamba Glacier of Peruvian Cordillera Blanca between 1980 and present, and visits to see effects of rising sea levels on Pacific Ocean atolls of Tuvalu, of desertification in Inner Mongolia, and of thawing permafrost in Alaska. Article coincides with book by same author "High Tide: News from a warming world".
Notes:

Geographical. Vol. 76(5) :51-54 (2004).

Keywords: 551.58 -- Climatology.
551.588 -- Climate, effect of man and environment.
551.345 -- Permafrost. Cryopedology.
551.324 -- Land ice.
551.324.22 -- Glaciers: Jacabamba glacier.
551.324.63 -- Land ice, advance and retreat.
551.461.2 -- Sea level, fluctuations.
551.453 -- Deserts.
91(08) -- Expeditions.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
SPRI record no.: 168321

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