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Early Warming

Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North
by Nancy Lord
Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North. Counterpoint. 2011. c.256p. photogs. index. ISBN 9781582434490. $26. SCI
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In a firsthand account of Alaska's changing environment, former Alaska State Writer laureate Lord (Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life) uses her gift as a storyteller to address the science and politics of weather and climate within the context of Alaskan life. There is familiarity and honesty in her writing about the animals, habitats, and people she describes so skillfully—the salmon and the polar bears, the boreal forest and its significance in the carbon cycle, and the resourceful Alaskans facing the impacts of climate change. Lord's interviews with community members, officials, and environmental leaders, along with her own observations, provide an insight into the causes of and solutions to the environmental, social, economic, and cultural impacts of global warming and climate change.
VERDICT Lord effectively places a life-threatening global issue within a local setting to give readers a glimpse of what Alaska and the rest of the world is at risk of losing without creative solutions and multiple layers of sustainability. Recommended for readers interested in nature and environmental issues.
Reviewed by Robin K. Dillow, Oakton Community Coll. Lib., Des Plaines, IL , Feb 01, 2011
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