Comments on: Book review – Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North/2018/08/22/book-review-brave-new-arctic-the-untold-story-of-the-melting-north/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:55:13 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/08/22/book-review-brave-new-arctic-the-untold-story-of-the-melting-north/comment-page-1/#comment-9136Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:19:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2073#comment-9136[…] to the uncertainty around sea-level rise. This means examining what is happening at the poles. From earlier reviews, I was already familiar with the rapid retreat of Greenland’s glaciers, but the book […]

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]]>By: Book review – Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/08/22/book-review-brave-new-arctic-the-untold-story-of-the-melting-north/comment-page-1/#comment-5156Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:23:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2073#comment-5156[…] account of the geopolitical manoeuvring in the Arctic. Highly recommended to be read alongside Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North, which will fill you in on the climatological […]

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]]>By: Book review – Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/08/22/book-review-brave-new-arctic-the-untold-story-of-the-melting-north/comment-page-1/#comment-2315Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:33:55 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2073#comment-2315[…] might be thinly populated by humans, they are not immune to change. As mentioned in my review of Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North, the Polar regions are particularly sensitive to climate change, warming quicker than other parts […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/08/22/book-review-brave-new-arctic-the-untold-story-of-the-melting-north/comment-page-1/#comment-1613Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:18:38 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2073#comment-1613[…] ocean circulation and weather patterns. Elsewhere (see my reviews of The Oceans: A Deep History and Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North) I have already highlighted that the coming together of various mechanisms results in fiendishly […]

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]]>By: Book review – Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/08/22/book-review-brave-new-arctic-the-untold-story-of-the-melting-north/comment-page-1/#comment-1291Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:14:46 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2073#comment-1291[…] in permafrost and underwater deposits known as clathrates (cf. The Oceans: A Deep History and Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North). She also shortly dwells on technological solutions such as carbon capture and storage (CCS for […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/08/22/book-review-brave-new-arctic-the-untold-story-of-the-melting-north/comment-page-1/#comment-1111Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:20:50 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2073#comment-1111[…] change: The geochemical cycles involved are also detailed in The Oceans. Brave New Arctic highlights how tipping points and feedback loops such as rapidly melting glaciers, thawing […]

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