High Tide theme song!
The acclaimed Glasgow-based singer/songwriter Ciaran Dorris has written a song inspired by High Tide, which he has kindly let me claim as a 'theme tune'. He's also exclusively allowing downloads of the full track, Halcyon Highway, from this site - click here (4.7MB in MP3). Visit Ciaran's site for information on getting the new album, 'Chasing dreams down a dirt road'.
Latest books
I have now written (or contributed to) four books in total. Click on their titles for more information and buying links.
Book news
Rights to Six Degrees have just been sold in Korea. National Geographic Channel has also bought the TV rights to Six Degrees, and plans to start filming next year.
High Tide in other languages
German: Sturmwarnung
French: Marée montante
Spanish: Marea Alta
American: High Tide
Swedish: Oväder
Dutch: Het Nieuwe Weer
Italian: Notizie da un Pianeta Rovente
Korean also available
books
Published 19 March 2007 by Fourth Estate (HarperCollins). Buy it here!
Don't miss the whole section on Six Degrees - including debates and latest info.
Like many who watched the hurricane disaster strike New Orleans last year, I was shocked at the deprivations endured by the victims – left to fend for themselves in terrible conditions in the world’s richest country. It was shocking in itself, but I also felt something else: that this was a window into the future, a glimpse of what may be in store for us all if nothing is done about global warming.
I kept wondering: where next? How and what will happen as the world warms bit by bit? With up to six degrees of global warming on the cards over the next hundred years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), what will happen to our coasts, our towns, our forests, our rivers, our croplands and our mountains? Will we all, as some environmentalists suggest, be reduced to eking out a living from shattered remains of civilisation in Arctic refuges, or will life go on much as before – only a little warmer?
Published on 4 January 2007 by Collins Gem low-price books.
You’ve heard of counting carbs. This book is about counting carbon. It’s not the health of your body that is the object of our interest this time, but the health of the planet. Carbon dioxide is the main gas responsible for global warming, and humans are producing 25 billion tonnes of the stuff every year, raising the temperature of the planet to dangerous levels. This book will help you bring down your personal contribution to this rather daunting problem.
Published by Collins in September 2006, with contributions from Mark Lynas and other authors.
You can trace, building-by-building, the path Hurricane Katrina took through New Orleans; or see clearly the damage done to the presidential palace in Baghdad during the war in Iraq. Each set of carefully selected 'before and after' pictures is combined with detailed explanations allowing you to understand exactly what has happened to our planet in the past, and what is likely to happen in the future. This unique book provides a stark look at the catastrophic effects our actions can have on the planet.
Published in paperback by Harper Perennial (HarperCollins), March 2005 - the acclaimed first book to tell the climate change story for a popular audience.
A glacier disappears high in the Peruvian Andes. Floodwaters surge across the English countryside. Ten thousand Pacific islanders begin to evacuate their homeland. A duststorm turns day into night across the Inner Mongolian plains.
To many people these events might seem unrelated. But they're not. Even as scientists and other experts continue to debate the specifics, climate crisis has crept up almost unnoticed on Planet Earth.
In this ground-breaking book, author Mark Lynas reveals the first evidence - painstakingly collected over three years of travelling to far-flung corners of the globe - of how global warming is hitting people's lives, not in the future, but in our world today.
marklynas.org