Feeling the heat / Jo Chandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandler, Jo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Australia.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Research.

Climatic changes--Forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2011.

Summary:

In Feeling the Heat, journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the defining mysteries of our age-climate change. The story Chandler tells is an epic adventure complete with heroes and villains. It's a love story for those with an affection for nature. A reality show like no other. It's also a story of science in its most glorious, pure form. Chandler takes us into wild landscapes in the company of scientists trying to decode climate information that will be critical to the decisions we make for the future of the planet. Written in the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, and by turn lyrical, funny, and achingly sad, Feeling the Heat reveals startling truths about that delicate, confounding organism we call Earth. Winner: 2012 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Prologue

1 Storm Front

2 Flight of the Albatross

3 Buried Treasure

4 Revisiting Gondwana

5 The Possum and the Pelican

6 Sleeping Giants

7 Postcard from the Edge

8 Whale Riders

9 The Siren in the Sea

10 A Reef in Time

11 Trouble in Paradise

12 Turtle Dreaming

13 On Thin Ice

14 Dawn of the Anthropocene

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522860436

0522860435

OCLC:

1496392986