Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (358 pages), ISBN 9780007209057 is a 2007 (2008 in USA) non-fiction book by author Mark Lynas.
The book is a meta-analysis that details the science of climate change. The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth u...
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