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The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers Hardcover – September 3, 2013

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4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they―and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice―will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.
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    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    St. Martin's Press
  4. Publication date
    September 3, 2013
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.81 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0312546289
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0312546281
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Whenever global warming and rising sea levels are mentioned in the same breath, the presumed source of the extra water is usually the polar ice caps. Yet according to nature writer and frequent National Geographic contributor White, melting mountaintop snow and ice will have just as much of an impact on environmental decline as shrinking coastlines. In the late summer of 2008, White joined a team of government-funded ecologists, led by veteran earth scientist Dan Fagre, to chart the rapid disappearance of alpine ice in Montana’s Glacier National Park. Here White eloquently describes the scores of breathtaking views he enjoyed during his five seasons with Fagre, even as the team grappled with many disturbing findings. He also makes it soberly clear just how fully fresh water reserves, fish habitats, and healthy forests depend on melting glacier runoff. White’s account is both an urgent wake-up call to nations across the globe that share responsibility for climate change and a heartbreaking elegy to a vital component of Earth’s ecology that may soon be gone forever. --Carl Hays

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“An act of witness to a disappearing world, and an implicit call to action to save what we can, this book is a great gift to us all!” ―Bill McKibben, author Oil and Honey: The Making of an Unlikely Activist

“The Melting World is both a hymn of praise and a requiem for the passing beauty of alpine snowfields. In the tradition of John McPhee and Norman Maclean, Christopher White chronicles the men and women racing against climate change to understand the mysteries of the frozen world, even as it inexorably disappears from view. Rich in vivid detail and lovely prose, White's gorgeous and heartbreaking book will appeal to adventurers and scientists and anyone else who cares for our beloved planet.” ―McKay Jenkins, author of The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press (September 3, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312546289
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312546281
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.81 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Christopher White is a science writer and naturalist. Early in his career, Chris was a staff biologist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, specializing in maritime issues. He also served as Executive Director of the Mare Nostrum Foundation, a Belgium-based ocean policy organization. Since then, he has written "The Melting World" and three books on the Chesapeake Bay, as well as articles about science and natural history for National Geographic and other magazines. He has a degree in biology from Princeton University. As a filmmaker, Chris served as a producer in development for an eight-part television documentary on man's relationship with the sea, The Blue Revolution, which won a CINE Golden Eagle. The series was broadcast on Discovery Channel and many networks around the world, including NHK-Japan, ABC-Australia, and TF1-France. His diving expeditions have taken him to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and the Great Barrier Reef (Australia). An avid mountaineer, he has climbed Mr. Rainier, Grand Teton, Glacier Peak, Mont Blanc, and the Matterhorn, among other summits.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting book, well written.
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2015
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Beautifully written, this is an amazing account of our glaciers and how quickly they are disappearing. Although there is much actual data in the book, I was very impressed with how interesting the author made it. He writes of various ecosystems and their inhabitants. He successfully describes the entire impact of what we can expect when glaciers are gone. He poetically captures their incredible beauty and all the esoteric benefits they provide. A well written book I thoroughly enjoyed - although "enjoy" is the wrong word as I will truly miss the glaciers when they are gone. I believe we all will. A book that is very timely and needs to be read.
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Jacque Crouch
4.0 out of 5 stars Glacier's are melting an an alarming rate and how that effects so many other things in our world.
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020
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Good book th understand what is taking place with the climate change in our world.
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Mary Byron
4.0 out of 5 stars If you love or have an interest in Glacier National Park
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014
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If you love or have an interest in Glacier National Park, it is a good read. The science of glaciers and their cycles was explained well. Could have used a map of the Park for those not familiar with it.
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Lloyd Schoen
4.0 out of 5 stars Hardcover book
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2013
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Because this book is a gift I have not read it. The is new and was delivered in good
shape even though it was packaged poorly.
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Judy Schmidt
4.0 out of 5 stars Global warming is nailing Glacier National Park faster than you think.
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2014
Alittle slow, but, an essential read. I love Montana. Losing our glaciers will have monumental effects on our whole ecosystem. Written by a man that is very passionate about glaciers, especially in Glacier National Park.
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