The Big Melt: A Journey to Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
About this book
In conjunction with Columbia Journalism Review's Covering Climate Change initiative, Rolling Stone contributing editor and leading environmental journalist Jeff Goodell takes us up close and personal to the world's coldest location - Western Antarctica - and to the foot of the Thwaites Glacier. Hear what it sounds like when ice melts and come to understand how the destabilization of this faraway shelf of ferociously beautiful ice will cause water levels to rise and overflow - much like a bathtub faucet might - across the globe. The consequences of what scientists have nicknamed "the Big Melt" could lead to flooding coastal cities from Africa and Asia to here in the United States in a matter of weeks - and may not stop for years. A team of international scientists are struggling to understand the physics of melting ice and how to potentially slow the drip. This is an environmental thriller with shattering real consequences for all of us.