The Quiet Limit of the World: A Journey to the North Pole to Investigate Global Warming

Scientists are becoming the new explorers and this book takes that point of view. In the same way that the photographer Hurley was taken aboard the Endurance to chronicle their achievement to the Antarctic in 1914, Grady is brought along on this trip to chronicle the exploration and discovery of the effects of global warming on the Arctic--the seeming linchpin of the climate change debate. If global warming is happening, it is happening here. Because scientists aren't always the best writers, they bring along Grady because of his experience in writing science and communicating to a larger audience. They don't want their discovery to go unheard, slipped into a report on some bureaucrat's desk. They want you and me to know so that we can make choices. Here's the evidence, Grady says, and--while we're at it, because I know you might like the adventure--here's the story, complete with characters, action and suspense. He also gives the reader--as the modern day exploration happens--a short history of Arctic exploration, global warming, and Arctic travel. I found myself making notes of all the original works he mentions, so I could read them later in their completed form. Deftly woven so that the reader becomes educated and enthralled, The Quiet Limit of the World is no ordinary travel adventure. This adventure has consequences for everyone, and Grady makes sure you are taken along for the ride.