A Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents - Couverture souple

Orsenna, Erik

 
9781906598747: A Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents

Synopsis

The long-term future of the Gulf Stream is now under threat; the arctic ice is melting and the fear among oceanographers is that the cold water will not sink in the Norwegian Sea, thus switching off this great transatlantic heat conveyor. Northern Europe would then freeze, and this apparent paradox - that global warming could bring about a new European ice age - seems to have caught the popular imagination. Orsenna explores the Gulf Stream, its past and its future, both in celebration and in lament at its possible demise.

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À propos de l?auteur

Erik Orsenna is a Goncourt-prize winning novelist, sailor, economist, jurist, presidential adviosr (to Mitterrand), member of the council d'Etat (like being a law lord for governmental matters) and one of the 40 immortalsA" of the Academie Francaise where he holds the seat formerly held by Cammander Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

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9781905791330: Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  190579133X ISBN 13 :  9781905791330
Editeur : Armchair Traveller, 2008
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