North Point Press/FSG, USA
ISBN: 0865476594

This book shows the author's healthy respect for the scientists studying climate change in Arctic Alaska and his equal respect for the knowledge that can only come from living in this harsh land for generations. Says one of the indigenous Inupiaq elders Wohlforth befriends, "They use science to prove things we already know." Journalist Wohlforth puts both points of view together making a compelling case for the existence of global warming and its potential consequences for humanity and the environment.

Charles Wohlforth

Charles Wohlforth lives in Anchorage, Alsaka.  He began his writing career at a weekly newspaper in an Alaskan fishing village.  He developed it freelancing pieces for travel guides (such as Frommer’s Alaska and Alaska for Dummies) and for magazines (such as The New Republic, Outside, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Newsday, and World Traveler]. From 1988-1992 he was a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, where he was lead field reporter on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. His experience with climate change comes from a lifetime of traveling Alaska’s wilderness and towns, where nature rubs against civilization’s rim. Wohlforth's English degree is from Princeton University.

Readers can discuss the book with him at www.wohlforth.net.