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Climat : dernier avertissement ; urgence climatique
Mark Lynas
- Au Diable Vauvert
- Documents
- 10 Mars 2022
- 9791030704228
« La tâche que je me suis fixée en écrivant ce livre est de rendre la science tellement claire que personne n'ait d'excuse pour l'ignorer. Pendant des années, j'ai passé au peigne fin des numéros longtemps oubliés d'obscures revues de glaciologie. Je me suis perdu des journées entières dans les petits caractères utilisés pour les références des rapports du GIEC. Chemin faisant, j'ai lu des centaines et des centaines d'articles scientifiques - tout cela pour que vous n'ayez pas à le faire. Alors si vous voulez connaître la vérité sur le changement climatique, la voici. ».
Nous vivons une urgence climatique. Comment cela pourraitil empirer ? Notre civilisation va-t-elle s'effondrer ? Avons-nous déjà dépassé le point de non-retour ? Mark Lynas nous éclaire ici sans faux-semblants, au nom de l'avenir de nos enfants.
En cataloguant rigoureusement les toutes dernières données scientifiques sur le climat, il examine les possibilités de vie sur Terre pour le prochain siècle et trace les conséquences probables du réchauffement climatique et de la catastrophe qui en découlera, degré par degré.
1° : l'Australie ravagée par les flammes.
2° : fonte de la calotte glaciaire de l'Arctique.
3° : crise alimentaire mondiale.
4° : des milliards de réfugiés climatiques.
5° : températures les plus chaudes de ces 55 millions d'années.
6° : possible extinction de masse.
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OUR FINAL WARNING - SIX DEGREES OF CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Mark Lynas
- Fourth Estate
- 1 Avril 2021
- 9780008308575
This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.
Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it''s only looking worse.
We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe.
At one degree - the world we are already living in - vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At four, large areas of the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and turning billions into climate refugees. At five, the planet is warmer than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of the end of all life on Earth.
These escalating consequences can still be avoided, but time is running out. We must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade if we are to save the coral reefs and the Arctic. If we fail, then we risk crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of humanity''s control.
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Marée montante : Enquête sur le réchauffement de la planète
Mark Lynas
- Au Diable Vauvert
- 7 Avril 2005
- 9782846260787
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Six degrees: our future on a hotter planet
Mark Lynas
- Harper Collins Uk
- 6 Février 2008
- 9780007209057
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
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SIX MINUTES TO WINTER ; NUCLEAR WAR AND HOW TO AVOID IT
Mark Lynas
- Bloomsbury
- 8 Mai 2025
- 9781399410519
Nuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity''s survival than climate change, but why is no one talking about it?
A blip comes onto radar screens, followed by another. False alarm? System malfunction? Or is a massive missile about to hit? With America''s ''launch on warning'' policy, the US president has as little as six minutes to decide whether to mount a nuclear response. The world teeters constantly on the brink of nuclear annihilation - and yet nobody is even talking about it.
There are no marches, no COPs, no nuclear Greta, but nuclear war is a greater immediate threat to humanity''s survival than climate change. A full nuclear exchange would literally mean the end of civilisation , destroying in a week what has taken millennia to build. In the post-nuclear global darkness there would be no photosynthesis. The biosphere would be wiped out in a mass extinction rivalled only by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Temperatures would fall below freezing for months on end. Virtually the entire global human population would starve, and there would be no reliable refuge.
Ignoring the issue is no more of a solution to the nuclear threat than it was to the climate one. Six Minutes to Winter outlines the horror but also proposes a solution - the building of an international political movement fighting for the total global abolition of these terrible weapons. And the time to start is now.>