The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
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Antarctica's capacity to create, store and disperse ice is critical to the way our planet functions. But along the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula there has been a 40 per cent decrease in the mean annual sea ice extent since 1979. This beautifully written book tells the story of the 'ferocious summer' Meredith Hooper spent working with key scientists in bases, on ice breakers and in research vessels. Her story focuses on the work and ideas of individual scientists and on the local animals, the Adelie penguins whose daily life has become critical evidence of real, incontrovertible climate change. Meredith Hooper brings an outsider's non-specialist awareness to the crucial understanding of what is happening, now, to the planet we share.
Author: Meredith Hooper
Format: Paperback, 320 pages, 130mm x 297mm, 285 g
Published: 2008, Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Natural History: General
Description
Antarctica's capacity to create, store and disperse ice is critical to the way our planet functions. But along the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula there has been a 40 per cent decrease in the mean annual sea ice extent since 1979. This beautifully written book tells the story of the 'ferocious summer' Meredith Hooper spent working with key scientists in bases, on ice breakers and in research vessels. Her story focuses on the work and ideas of individual scientists and on the local animals, the Adelie penguins whose daily life has become critical evidence of real, incontrovertible climate change. Meredith Hooper brings an outsider's non-specialist awareness to the crucial understanding of what is happening, now, to the planet we share.
The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica