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Cold, adventures in the world's frozen places, Bill Streever

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-283) and index

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Cold

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Bill Streever

adventures in the world's frozen places

July. Explorers, victims of cold, and immersion in thirty-five-degree water north of the Arctic Circle -- August. A tunnel in ground frozen for forty thousand years, landscapes changing as temperatures rise, and animals harmed by warmth -- September. The Little Ice Age, the Pleistocene Ice Age, and the ancient ice age of Snowball Earth, when the entire planet was veiled in ice -- October. Animals coping with cold, migrating by the millions, and hibernating with body temperatures below freezing -- November. Skis and skiing, a trail closed by a late-season bear, and freezing trees releasing a burst of heat and flushing the fluid from their cells -- December. Overheating in the depths of winter, shadows of Weddell seals in the sea ice, and Japanese ama divers in water cold enough to kill most humans -- January. Weather patterns that cause frigid conditions, medieval weather forecasters burning at the stake, and a frozen ocean -- February. Plummeting temperatures, the cooling of Westminster Abbey, and approaching absolute zero and the death of matter -- March. A search for polar bear dens near forty below zero, winter apparel, igloos, quinzhees, and a house instrumented to measure cold -- April. Frost-heaved roads, broken pipes, crops destroyed by frost, and 143 caribou killed by an avalanche -- May. The end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, rising sea levels, howling winds, receding glaciers, and mammoth carcasses in thawing ground -- June. Fourier's greenhouse effect, Revelle's geophysical experiment, debating science, and the melting Beaufort Sea