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The time for action is now.

The fate of the world’s coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to the Andes. The choices we make now will determine whether oceans rise by a coast-swamping 1 metre by 2100 or whether we can save our coastal communities.

From the glaciers of Antarctica and the high Andes, to the small island states of the Pacific and the coastal cities of Miami, New York, Venice and Rotterdam – Alister Doyle tracks the thaw that threatens life as we know it, shining a light on the most vulnerable people at the shoreline who are already moving inland, on the scientists puzzling about what is going on, and on the ideas about how to limit the damage.

Reviews

‘Alister Doyle has written an important and book about the very real effects of climate change on people’s lives. Many of the people featured are from his days reporting as Environment correspondent for the Reuters News Agency and his thorough research and reasoning should be considered very seriously by anyone interested in ensuring man’s long-term survival.’

‘A refreshing insight into how sea level rise actually affects people across the world – filled with personal stories from places like Antarctica to Panama coupled with the facts to back it up, making it an interesting read’

‘Crucial reading for anyone with a view of the future of the planet.’

‘The best and most human account of the effects of climate change that I have ever read. Full of fascinating facts, as well.’

Alister Doyle is a journalist and writer who has focused for 20 years on climate change and the environment. His first book, “The Great Melt” – accounts from the frontlines of climate change – was published by Flint Books in October 2021 – it tells the stories of people living by the shoreline or by melting glaciers, and to scientists trying to understand what is happening. He visits places including Fiji, Panama, Antarctica, Sweden and Peru.

Christiana Figueres, an architect of the 2015 Paris climate agreement between almost 200 nations when she was head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, wrote the foreword and called it “an innovative wake-up call for action from the fragile frontlines”.

Born in Devon, Alister studied French and Spanish at Oxford University and worked at Reuters for 36 years – with postings to Brussels, Tegucigalpa and Managua (where he met his Norwegian wife), Oslo and Paris. He won a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 2011-12. He lives in Norway.

His award-winning journalism work has taken him to almost 50 countries, with trips to ice from Greenland to Antarctica. He is among reporters who have spent most time covering UN climate negotiations – COP26, the UN climate change summit in Glasgow in 2021, was his 14th COP. on Twitter, he´s at @alisterdoyle also runs the website https://www.sealevelrise.com/