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Farewell to Ice

Peter Wadhams
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      'Astonishing ... beautiful, compelling and terrifying' Observer'Wadhams' writing sparkles ... a lyrical sense of wonder at the natural world ... essential reading ... may be the best reader-friendly account of the greenhouse effect available to date' John Burnside, New StatesmanIce is beautiful and complex. It regulates our planet's temperature. And it is vanishing - fast. Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea ice, draws on his lifetime's research in the Arctic region to illuminate what is happening, what it means for the future, and what can be done.'This most experienced and rational scientist states what so many other researchers privately fear but cannot publicly say' John Vidal, Guardian'Wadhams brings huge expertise to his subject - and he is an excellent writer' Martin Rees'Utterly extraordinary' Jonathon Porritt
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Wadhams EAN: 9780241009437 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 214 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-09-07 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Arctic regions, Environmental archaeology, Popular science, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Biogeography, Geographical discovery and exploration, Climate change, Environmental monitoring

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      Peter Wadhams is the UK's most experienced sea ice scientist. He was Director of the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge 1987-92 and Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge 1992-2015. He has made more than 50 expeditions to both polar regions, working from ice camps, icebreakers, aircraft, and, uniquely, submarines. His has been awarded the W.S. Bruce Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1977), the UK Polar Medal (1987) and the Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences (1990). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of the Finnish Academy.
      'Astonishing ... beautiful, compelling and terrifying' Observer'Wadhams' writing sparkles ... a lyrical sense of wonder at the natural world ... essential reading ... may be the best reader-friendly account of the greenhouse effect available to date' John Burnside, New StatesmanIce is beautiful and complex. It regulates our planet's temperature. And it is vanishing - fast. Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea ice, draws on his lifetime's research in the Arctic region to illuminate what is happening, what it means for the future, and what can be done.'This most experienced and rational scientist states what so many other researchers privately fear but cannot publicly say' John Vidal, Guardian'Wadhams brings huge expertise to his subject - and he is an excellent writer' Martin Rees'Utterly extraordinary' Jonathon Porritt
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Wadhams EAN: 9780241009437 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 214 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-09-07 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Arctic regions, Environmental archaeology, Popular science, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Biogeography, Geographical discovery and exploration, Climate change, Environmental monitoring

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      Peter Wadhams is the UK's most experienced sea ice scientist. He was Director of the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge 1987-92 and Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge 1992-2015. He has made more than 50 expeditions to both polar regions, working from ice camps, icebreakers, aircraft, and, uniquely, submarines. His has been awarded the W.S. Bruce Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1977), the UK Polar Medal (1987) and the Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences (1990). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of the Finnish Academy.

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