A Farewell to Ice
For fifty years Peter Wadhams has made an annual visit to the world's poles and measured the ice caps. His conclusions are inescapable: they are melting. Within a few years, the North Pole will likely be ice-free for the first time in 10,000 years. Should sea ice and the land ice on Greenland and Antarctica melt into the ocean, the resulting rise in sea levels would devastate coastal communities worldwide, and the release of methane currently trapped by offshore permafrost would have a twenty-three times greater greenhouse warming effect per molecule than CO2. In other words, an ice-free arctic summer will have an albedo effect nearly equivalent to that of the last thirty years combined, causing what some call the "Arctic death spiral."
A sobering but urgent and engaging book, A Farewell to Ice illuminates ice's role on our planet, its history, and the true dimensions of the current crisis, offering readers concrete advice about what they can do--and what must be done.
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