5/30/2023 0 Comments Six degrees of climate emergency![]() ![]() The book explains how the release of methane hydrate and the release of methane from melting permafrost could unleash a major extinction event. Special coverage is given to the positive feedback mechanisms that could dramatically accelerate climate change. The effects are also compared to paleoclimatic studies, with six degrees of warming compared back to the Cretaceous. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of an increase of six Celsius degrees (6 ☌) average global temperature. ![]() The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree celsius (1 ☌) increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times. The book looks and attempts to summarize results from scientific papers on climate change. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (358 pages), ISBN 978-0-00-720905-7 is a 2007 (2008 in the US) non-fiction book by author Mark Lynas about global warming. ![]()
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