Earth Equity News

Global Warming Book Wins World's Top Science Book Prize. By Mark Henderson, London Times, June 16, 2008. "An investigation of how global warming could change the planet over the next century has won the world's leading award for science writing. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, by the journalist Mark Lynas, was named as this year's winner of the £10,000 Royal Society Science Books Prize. Mr. Lynas's book describes what science suggests could happen with each degree Celsius by which global temperatures could warm by 2100, to highlight the urgency of tackling climate change now... Professor Jonathan Ashmore, of University College, London, who chaired the judging panel, said: 'Lynas gives us a compelling and gripping view of how climate change could affect our world...This is a book that will stimulate debate and that will, Lynas hopes, move us to action in the hope that this is a disaster movie that never happens. Everyone should read [it].'"