Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet is a non-fiction book by author Mark Lynas.

The book is a meta-analysis that details the science of climate change. The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of six degrees average global temperature.

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• What will climate change do to our planet?, Sunday Times, March 11, 2007. Summary of some of the book's key scenarios.