A World Without Ice

Praise

“In a world where everything frozen is now melting, we should barely need a book to get our attention. But clearly we do, and this is the book-a thorough reminder of what it means to live in a planet with poles and glaciers, and what it will be like without them.”
-Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and author of the national bestseller Deep Economy

“Skiers rejoice when snow falls and Inuit hunters welcome sea ice, while commuters find winter storms an inconvenience. Henry Pollack has a much broader view. Speaking eloquently, forcefully, yet lyrically, he explains how snow and ice are the clockworks of our planet. A World Without Ice is a fascinating, scary, but informative portrait of Earth’s delicate climate balance and the thresholds we are staring across.”
-Jon Turk, author of The Raven’s Gift

“The work of Dr. Pollack and the IPCC in bringing attention to the very serious dangers posed by climate change has been justly praised. This book shows how essential ice-caps and glaciers are. It is a welcome contribution to planetary conservation.”
-Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and author of The Challenge For Africa

“A World Without Ice is part a history of ice on Earth, part a scientist’s love song to his subject, and part an unsentimental eulogy to ice…The book offers a great opportunity for the novice to dip into climate science first-hand.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“Seldom has a scientist written so well and so clearly for the lay reader. Pollack’s explanations of how researchers can tell that the climate is warming faster than normal are free of the usual scientific jargon and understandable.”
-Betty Galbraith, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman; Library Journal, starred review

“Pollack, a geophysicist with the admirable ability to communicate in a language other than math, presents the stark facts of today’s [climate] situation and offers careful descriptions of the likelihood of a frightening future, should earth’s climate continue to change. . . . But he also offers some realistic hope that catastrophes may be mitigated, if not avoided.”
-Patricia Monaghan, Booklist, starred review