“A Double Whammy” Chapter 4 of Mark Lyna’s book highlights the areas of the world that would be hit hard by increasing sea levels caused by polar ice cap melting . Lynas explains that there is no way to reverse the process regardless of human influences, which seems to spell out a dyer situation for many of [...]

The life of a cloud In the third chapter of Lyna’s Six Degree’s he opens with the stories and commentary about the changing ecosystems in Arid climates and how the weather patterns effect their stability. What fascinated me was the significance of clouds , and where they inevitably decide to drop their precious cargo back onto the [...]

The largest snow storm in Washington DC in ninety years certainly does not feel like global warming, and unfortunately such miss conceptions are terrific fodder for global warming skeptics . Today I opened my front door to a wall of snow two feet deep. A few weeks ago, in the middle of January, I opened the same door [...]

Six degrees our future on a hotter planet Mark lynas Reaching back just a few hundred years to the industrial revolution, pioneers and inventors of the time had no idea what they had started. But what they did not understand about the fragility of our planet, our generation cannot afford to ignore. Chapter one in [...]