Download torrent Heatstroke : Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Download torrent Heatstroke : Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Heatstroke : Nature in an Age of Global Warming by Anthony Barnosky

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Author: Anthony Barnosky
Page Count: 288 pages
Published Date: 30 Apr 2009
Publisher: Island Press
Publication Country: Washington, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781597261975
File size: 47 Mb
File Name: Heatstroke.Nature.in.an.Age.of.Global.Warming.pdf
Download Link: Heatstroke Nature in an Age of Global Warming
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How is wildlife adapting to climate change? In 2006, one of the hottest years on record, a 'pizzly' was discovered near the top of the world. Half polar bear, half grizzly, this never-before-seen animal might be dismissed as a fluke of nature. Anthony Barnosky instead sees it as a harbinger of things to come. In "Heatstroke", the renowned paleoecologist shows how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and its creatures. While melting ice may have helped produce the pizzly, climate change is more likely to wipe out species than to create them. Plants and animals that have followed the same rhythms for millennia are suddenly being confronted with a world they're unprepared for - and adaptation usually isn't an option. This is not the first time climate change has dramatically transformed Earth. Barnosky draws connections between the coming centuries and the end of the last ice age, when mass extinctions swept the planet. The differences now are that climate change is faster and hotter than past changes, and for the first time humanity is driving it. Which means this time we can work to stop it. No one knows exactly what nature will come to look like in this new age of global warming. But "Heatstroke" gives us a haunting portrait of what we stand to lose and the vitality of what can be saved.

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