Six Degrees: Life on a Hotter Planet, with Mark Lynas

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Global warming caused by humans is now acknowledged as one of the most serious threats ever to confront the Earth. Is enough really being done to mitigate climate change? And what will happen if it is already too late? Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: Life on a Hotter Planet, gives us a vivid description of the physical and human toll fossil-fuel-based culture has taken on the planet. By painting an alarming degree-by-degree picture, he tells us what is likely to happen over the next few decades as the result of global warming, unless we act now.

Mark Lynas is a British author, journalist and environmental activist focused on climate change. He is author of Six Degrees: Life on a Hotter Planet (Harper Collins, 2006) and High Tide: News from a Warming World (HarperPerennial, 2005) and contributes to the New Statesman, Ecologist, Granta and Geographical magazines, and The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in the UK.

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