The Great Melt

Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change

Alister Doyle

• Publisher: Flint
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780750999137
• Topic: Ciencias biológicas
• Subtopic: Calentamiento global y cambio climático

The time for action is now.

The fate of the world's coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to the Andes. The choices we make now will determine whether oceans rise by a coast-swamping 1 metre by 2100 or whether we can save our coastal communities.

From the glaciers of Antarctica and the high Andes, to the small island states of the Pacific and the coastal cities of Miami, New York, Venice and Rotterdam – Alister Doyle tracks the thaw that threatens life as we know it, shining a light on the most vulnerable people at the shoreline who are already moving inland, on the scientists puzzling about what is going on, and on the ideas about how to limit the damage.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Christiana Figueres
• Journeys into the Frontlines of Climate Change
• 1 In Antarctica, the Giant Stirs
• 2 In Fiji: One Man, Three Homes
• 3 An Andean Glacier Is Melting: See You in Court
• 4 In Monaco, Superyachts and Sea Level Rise
• 5 Future Migration: A Flawed Pacific Guide
• 6 In the Caribbean, the Dream of Higher Ground
• 7 Seal Rocks and Ancient Oaks: The Mystery of the Falling Baltic Sea
• 8 Iceland’s Glaciers: A Requiem for Ice
• 9 Fighting Sea Level Rise: Build a Wall, or Maybe a Sandcastle?
• 10 “Climate Refugees?” A Pacific Quest May Open the Way
• Epilogue: 28 Trillion Tonnes of Ice
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Endnotes
• Plates