Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate by Leonie S. Joubert

ISBN: 9781868144372 / 1868144372 - Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate by Leonie S. Joubert. Published by Wits University Press, 2006. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 251 pp.

Scorched is a vivid journey through southern Africa's mesmerizing landscapes as climate change sets in.

This is the place where a solitary bee continues to pollinate the pale, demure flower of an orchid near Darling, or where the limey coral skeleton hosts its colorful algae on a Sodwana reef. These plants and animals many of which are unique to the region continue to do what their ancestors have done for millions of years. Yet the world is shifting its shape around them. In places it is warming and drying, elsewhere the rains come in greater deluges. Some are abandoned by the other plants and animals with which they have cohabited, as species retreat before the onslaught of rising greenhouse gases and altered weather patterns.

Scorched marvels at the world in which we live: the improbable balance of the air round us and the way it banks away the Sun's energy to keep us warm and thriving, the way life has evolved in this planetary incubator and how one species has risen up to become a potent geophysical force with the ability to shift a system which has evolved over 4600 million years.

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