He lives in Herefordshire.Ĭhaired by Andy Fryers, Hay Festival's Sustainability Director. This is an update 13 years later and it is even more pessimistic given. He has written for CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Times, the Guardian and is a visiting fellow with the Alliance for Science at Cornell University, New York. Mark Lynas is a British author who is best known for his Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet published in 2007. Mark Lynas is a journalist, campaigner and author of several books on the environment, including High Tide (2004), Six Degrees (2007), The God Species (2011), Nuclear 2.0 (2013) and Seeds of Science (2018). It looks like we dont have any photos or quotes yet. If we fail, then we risk crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of humanity’s control. Mark Lynas: Self - Author, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. We must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade if we are to save the coral reefs and the Arctic. These escalating consequences can still be avoided, but time is running out.

At five, the planet is warmer than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of the end of all life on Earth. At four, large areas of the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and turning billions into climate refugees.

At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. At one degree – the world we are already living in – vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. Illustrated with extraordinary images and graphics, the climate expert lays out the scale and timeline of threat to the planet.

Six degrees by mark lynas