I read the last pages of this book while the climate summit in Belèm ended in disaster. This book had been written in 20026 just after the Kyoto protocol, a decade before the Paris Agreement. You would have hoped it would be less significant.
I liked the first part where she is in Alaska and Greenland and goes on fieldtrips and so on, and does interesting observations. You can lick the sea ice to see how old it is (saltier ice is younger). The albedo (of snow) is arround 0.8, 0.9. The albedo of the ocean is like 0.07 (I knew this, but not that the difference would be that huge).
'So there's an opportunity to build things there using modern technology [...] And there's a challenge for us: to do things that convince the Chinese that that's a better strategy.' a scientist says in the latter part of the book.
For us. Like the Chinese do not figure that out themselves and if they do it is to our credit?? We are another decade further, 20 years of waiting. China is the driving force in climate change, I read in the newspaper the other day...



