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Heatstroke:

Nature in an Age of Global Warming
  • ISBN-13: 9781597261975
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: SHEARWATER
  • By Anthony D. Barnosky
  • Price: AUD $86.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2009
  • Format: Hardback 288 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Earth sciences [RB]
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In 2006, one of the hottest years on record, a “pizzlya was discovered near the top of the world. Half polar bear, half grizzly, this never-before-seen animal might be dismissed as a fluke of nature. Anthony Barnosky instead sees it as a harbinger of things to come.

In Heatstroke, the renowned paleoecologist shows how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and its creatures. While melting ice may have helped produce the pizzly, climate change is more likely to wipe out species than to create them. Plants and animals that have followed the same rhythms for millennia are suddenly being confronted with a world they're unprepared for'and adaptation usually isn't an option.

This is not the first time climate change has dramatically transformed Earth. Barnosky draws connections between the coming centuries and the end of the last ice age, when mass extinctions swept the planet. The differences now are that climate change is faster and hotter than past changes, and for the first time humanity is driving it. Which means this time we can work to stop it.

No one knows exactly what nature will come to look like in this new age of global warming. But Heatstroke gives us a haunting portrait of what we stand to lose and the vitality of what can be saved.
Preface
 
PART I. Recipe for Disaster?
Chapter 1. The Heat Is On
Chapter 2. Behind Nature's Heartbeat
Chapter 3. On Our Watch
Chapter 4. Witnessing Extinction
Chapter 5. No Place to Run To
 
PART II. Normal for Nature
Chapter 6. California Dreaming
Chapter 7. Disturbance in Yellowstone
Chapter 8. Mountain Time in Colorado
Chapter 9. Africa on the Edge
 
PART III. Uncharted Terrain
Chapter 10. Disappearing Act
Chapter 11. Losing the Parts
Chapter 12. Skeleton Crew
Chapter 13. Bad Company
Chapter 14. Geography of Hope
 
Appendix: Slowing Down Global Warming
Notes
Index
"Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware."
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