Climate change explained: the impact of temperature rises 05 May 09
Written for the Guardian, 14 April 2009. A slightly updated precis of Six Degrees
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Much to the surprise of its author, Six Degrees has scooped the prestigious Royal Society Science Books Prize, triumphing over such strong contenders as Steve Jones's 'Coral: A pessimist in paradise', and J. Craig Venter's 'A Life Decoded'.
Six Degrees has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Royal Society Prize for Science Books - along with J. Craig Venter's 'A Life Decoded', Steve Jones for his book 'Coral', and 'The Sun Kings' by Stuart Clark.
Six Degrees has made the longlist for the prestigious Orwell Prize. Here's the full press release:
National Geographic Channel's premiere of Six Degrees could change the world reached an audience of 6.7 million people in the US when transmitted on Sunday night, 10 February.
National Geographic has made a superb film adaptation of my book Six Degrees, which is premiering on NG Channel in the US on February 10 at 8pm ET/9pm PT, and around the world on later dates. Check out the special website, which allows you to explore the warming world interactively, and also to watch video trailers for the world at each degree.
Well, it was worth the wait - Six Degrees has been very positively reviewed on the website RealClimate, a hugely successful blog and comments site run by climate scientists.
A short animated film version of Six Degrees is now available online, courtesy of Green TV.
It's always nice when real scientists come to the same conclusions as us amateurs. So I got a pleasant surprise, when flicking through the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC's WGIII report, to see a table on page 23 which strongly resembles a table in the final chapter of Six Degrees, outlining the likely temperature rise associated with each incremental rise in CO2 concentrations.
A short interview for the Friends of the Earth website, covering subjects such as why six degrees is called six degrees, and what annoys me most about car drivers...
By the end of the century, the Earth could be more than 6C hotter than it is today, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We know that would be bad news - but just how bad? How big a rise will it take for the Alps to melt, the oceans to die and desert to conquer Europe and the Americas? Mark Lynas sifted through thousands of scientific papers for his new book on global warming. This is what the research told him...
Reviews of Six Degrees have now appeared in various newspapers and magazines. Here are links to those that are available free online, in no particular order.
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If we still have time to stabilise the climate below two degrees – and models suggest we do – then we can potentially save great swathes of global biodiversity, slow the melting of Greenland and associated sea level rise down to tolerable levels, and avoid the most dangerous positive feedbacks that would kick in as we approach three degrees of warming.
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