Although it may seem barren, Antarctica is a vital — and increasingly threatened — part of the Earth's ecosystem. The Ferocious Summer is writer Meredith Hooper's firsthand account of the effects of climate change on this frozen continent. For one summer, Hooper lived and worked with scientists observing the summer population of Adélie penguins nesting at Palmer Station, the smallest of America's three Antarctic research bases. For Hooper, Palmer's penguins offered a way to understand the complex business of the Earth's changing climate. The Antarctic Peninsula was warming fast. Why? What were scientists doing to understand it? The daily lives of Palmer's few thousand Adélie penguins were becoming key evidence, and pieces of the climate change jigsaw began falling into place. Based on daily diaries, acute personal observations, and interviews with Antarctica's international community of researchers, this book is a fascinating and alarming report from the frontlines of global warming.
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This review is from: The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica (Hardcover)
On the cover of this book is this quote, "Like canaries in a coal mine, penguins present an undeniable and urgent warning of the devastating effect of climate change on the planet. This timely book must be read." David Suzuki
I could not have said it better myself. If you care about your childrens future and the "home" we leave for them read this book. It is an epic true story of the struggle for survival that the Adelie penguins have endured as their habitat has changed causing low or no birth rate (remember March of the Penguins?) This is a gripping, scientific account of a summer spent by Meredith Hooper in Antarctica as she witnessed and kept daily diaries, working with scientists at the Palmer Station to document what is happening to these beautiful, friendly birds and what it can mean for humankind as Antarctica is melting at six times the rate of the rest of the planet. How fragile we are. The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
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old palmer, brown skua pairs, giant petrel chicks, seabird work, ferocious summer, brown skuas, giant petrels, dive locker, kelp gulls, penguin numbers, penguin guano, indicator counts, diet samples, glacier face, food chase, chinstrap penguins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Antarctic Peninsula, The Ferocious Summer, Anvers Island, Mount William, Arthur Harbour, Marguerite Bay, Palmer's Adélies, Dave Bresnahan, South America, Norsel Point, Hero Inlet, Litchfield Island, Back Yard, British Antarctic Survey, Palmer Station, Bonaparte Point, Punta Arenas, Gamage Point, Antarctic Program, Ross Island, John King, Palmer Deep, Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, Humble Island Browse Sample Pages:
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Daylight shrinks, and the sea's surface starts to freeze. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old palmer, brown skua pairs, giant petrel chicks, seabird work, ferocious summer, brown skuas, giant petrels, dive locker, kelp gulls, penguin numbers, penguin guano, indicator counts, diet samples, glacier face, food chase, chinstrap penguins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Antarctic Peninsula, The Ferocious Summer, Anvers Island, Mount William, Arthur Harbour, Marguerite Bay, Palmer's Adélies, Dave Bresnahan, South America, Norsel Point, Hero Inlet, Litchfield Island, Back Yard, British Antarctic Survey, Palmer Station, Bonaparte Point, Punta Arenas, Gamage Point, Antarctic Program, Ross Island, John King, Palmer Deep, Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, Humble Island Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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