The great melt. Accounts from the frontline of climate change: by Alister Doyle, Cheltenham, Flint, 2021, ix+256 pp., £20 (pbk), ISBN 978 0 7509 9784 3.

If 1000 years were required to melt the ice cap, the sea level would rise about 4 feet every ten years ... 100 times the present rate of sea level rise'. The report of his scientific advisory committee published in the same year suggested that one result could be'the melting of the Antarctic ice cap which would raise sea level by 400 feet. I An Andean glacier is melting: See you in court i is an account of a Peruvian farmer suing a German power utility for contributing to melting an Andean glacier that might bury his home with a cataclysmic mudflow, as happened earlier, in 1941. [Extracted from the article]