![]() ![]() In what can be considered an IPCC report for non-scientists, Six Degrees was a highly functional tool for the general public to understand why global temperature rise is such a terrifying thing. A decade and a half on, it continues to be relevant and cited around the world. Six Degrees expertly escalated the dread, despair and nightmarish conditions of an increasingly warm world. ![]() Each chapter in the book addressed another degree of warming, and included detailed descriptions of how that much atmospheric carbon would impact climate, oceans, temperatures, glaciers and all life on Earth. Six Degrees was innovative in how it framed the crisis. ![]() In 2007, Mark Lynas published the original Six Degrees, a breakdown of what changes to the Earth’s climate and geophysical characteristics we can expect for each degree of warming, from 1 to 6 degrees. The science is in, and if this truly is our final warning, it is well past time to take notice. What will the future hold for us if atmospheric carbon levels continue to rise, industries continue to pollute and governments fail to enact firm changes? From the 1 degree world we currently live in up to the hellish land the Earth would be under 6 degrees of warming, journalist Mark Lynas shows in his latest book Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency exactly what this future would look like. Collapsing ice sheets, torrential dust clouds and deadly heat waves. ![]()
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