The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World

by Porter Fox

Book Overview

One man's "curiously thrilling joyride" of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).

As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316460923
• ISBN13: 9780316460927
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"