If you haven’t given much thought to ice lately then you’re in for quite a bit of thinking when you’re done here. I’m not talking about the cubes that keep your whiskey chilled though you may give extra thought to the carbon footprint on that imported Jameson.
Jamail is an excellent guide, his experiences with life’s extremes have enabled him to navigate thru environmentally opposite ends of the earth and come out with clear, concise details on what’s been done to these ecosystems and what if any hope remains to turn the tide.
The book does bear witness but does t always find meaning.

I read this book as a pre-release e-book obtained through NetGalley, provided by the publisher.

Important book for everyone to read. This is the future we have to look forward to. The book is somewhat depressing, and at the same time truthful. The book is filled with facts, figures, data, and references - making it a great book for some (like me), and boring for others.

This is a good book for realists to read, and to help them plan on the future or how to cope with it - much sooner than we commonly believe or think.

I received this book via Netgalley in return for an honest review.

I'm not going to say I enjoyed reading this book, because the information it shares is just so devastating to our planet. But I did think the author did a really good job talking about how climate change, human interaction with the planet, and other factors are gradually leading to some major changes in the not too distant future. I was unaware of the Trump administration's recent changes and assignments to the EPA which are very troubling as well.

If you like science, or want to learn more about how our earth is undergoing some significant changes in sea level, coral reef life, ice plateaus, etc. then I highly recommend this book.

This is a highly readable, chilling (no pun intended) eye-opening book. Everyone should read this, especially those that refuse to believe that climate change is real. How can anyone deny global warming when faced with a line such as this? "A child born today will see an Everest largely free of glaciers within her lifetime"
On one hand, I felt better educated on global warming and how melting glaciers affect us all. On the other hand, I am at a loss to consider what we can do about this within our lifetimes. So educational, but disturbing and sad.
All that being said though, I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone with an interest in how our world is changing.

Climate disruption. That’s the word used by journalist Dahr Jamail in the new book, The End of Ice. This book should be required reading for everyone who lives on planet Earth.

Read this book, but do so in short sessions to give yourself time to digest what you’ve just read. You will want to think deeply about it. It’s that moving. We have done some serious damage to our planet and our climate is suffering. It makes for very emotionally taxing reading, but it is so important that the word gets out. I found myself sobbing with heartbreak after some chapters. The writing is that good. The story told is that sad.

Jamail offers numerous statistics to back up the story of how the ice is melting, the oceans warming, the water rising, the coral reefs dying and more. It is incredibly disturbing to realize that we are at a point where we may not be able to reverse the damage and the consequences for survival of the human race are severe. Jamail interviews countless people who live or work on the front lines of this crisis. Their stories share a common theme and message, one that we desperately need to hear. The interviewees are scientists, fishermen, people in the tourism industry, city planners, and more. People who have seen firsthand how the disruption of the climate is wreaking havoc on the planet we call home.

Our ecosystems are in peril. Glaciers are melting. Permafrost is disappearing. And the warming of the oceans and melting of the ice could lead to a catastrophic and sudden release of large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. We are facing the end of Earth as we know it. What will be left for our children and grandchildren?

I cannot recommend this book enough. Read it and take action to try to slow the destruction of our planet. The need to make changes is urgent and we are the generation who needs to do it. Yes, we can grieve for what has been lost, but we need to turn that into action as well. To try to save what’s left.

The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail — A former war reporter takes his journalism skills to a new battle, traveling around the world to see the impacts of climate change firsthand.

In short, The End of Ice by journalist Dahr Jamail is a deeply moving book about climate change. The author takes us on a journey from Denali and Alaska's (not so permanent) permafrost regions through Amazonian rainforests that are being cut down at an alarming rate and coastal regions that will soon vanish due to a massive rise of sea levels to the basically dying Great Barrier Reef. He talks to environmental scientists and Native people and paints a very dark picture of the future. The author points out the changes already happening all over the world, all these disruptions "in the web of life" and how they will worsen in the next few decades. How we are smack in the middle of the sixth mass extinction event in planetary history, which the author calls "the single largest existential crisis humanity has ever faced" and how we might not live to see nature recover from it.
Ultimately, the author ends on a hopeful note, quoting Václav Havel: "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out."
The only teeny tiny thing that bothered me was the mix of units (meter/inch, °F/°C, etc), but I am very nitpicky about those.

The book is incredibly well written, very emotional and a little bit depressing. I loved it and it definitely is a book that I feel everyone should read.

Grab this as soon as it hits the street. Jamail, a seasoned journalist and mountaineer, stuns with "The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption." Weaving in riveting accounts of some of his top-of-the-world mountain adventures, he sets out to explore the spots on Earth where climate change can be seen to be happening. In Alaska and Montana, he sees firsthand how glaciers are retreating, and in Alaska's northernmost village, he learns how Arctic sea ice is vanishing "so fast, we're having trouble keeping up," in the words of one scientist. In the Bering Sea, he talks to people baffled at how fishing is threatened by fast-warming ocean waters. He checks out dying coral reefs in Palau and Guam, visits the sickly Great Barrier Reef. As have a number of writers, in Florida he is flabbergasted that property investors still thrive in Miami, already subject to regular flooding. He examines trees and the Amazonian rainforests. Throughout, he is evocative yet precisely factual; the effect is overwhelming. Throughout, a constant theme is the utter inability of dedicated scientists to understand how the human race ignores their messages. When I read this - "A child born today will see an Everest largely free of glaciers within her lifetime" - I was shattered. Jamail's final moving call to action cements "The End of Ice," in my view, as an essential modern overview of climate disruption.

The End of Ice is a really serious book about climate disruption. The author travels around and interviews people who are affected by climate change first hand. The book begins with some personal experiences of the author, and then goes on exploring different parts of the world, for example the Arctic circle and the Amazon forest.

While there is a lot of number- and fact-dropping, this is a really well written book. It reads easily and I found the numbers did not really bother me. It's an important read for well, everyone actually! But that's what brings me to the following point; the book is pretty depressing. It really feels like no hope is left - and that's what's basically said in the conclusion. No hope is left, we're done. And that's why I wouldn't really recommend it to everyone because we need a little hope. Because if we have hope, we are more likely to take action! If you believe all is lost - why take action?

I recommend it to people who are already really commited to protect nature and those who already do their best daily to lessen their carbon footprint. Because they are the people who aren't really depressed right away by the facts, they already know them. Still I think the author dropped a really good book, one that moves thoughts.

This book by a journalist who has worked in Iraq and has deep longing and concern for our nature.
Book is enjoyable, pierecing, accurate, detailed and contemporary. Author covers all facets of our ecology damaged by blind mindless pursuit of industrious human beings.
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Deeply moving testimonials by reputed environmentalists throws light onto the fact that we are already in irreparable stage.
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Journey starts at Denali and covers Barrier reef, amazon forest, antartica, Miami beach, Forests, coastal areas, permafrost, sequoia and every thing worth considering.
Book hits on faulty policy by local and central governments.
Book has pictures to supplement highly engaging prose.
At no point did I get bored and there were lots of interesting facts to learn but more you know more terrifying the reality becomes.
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Thing that I didn't like was lots of numerical values about amount of Co2 being pumped into air, as reader cannot guess amount in tonnes.
Highly recommended book which every young person must read and contempelate.

This book was, well, depressing. It presents an utterly convincing case that humans are destroying the planet, and that we are negatively affecting pretty much every ecosystem, from the Alaskan tundra to the Great Barrier Reef, from the Sierra Nevada range to the Amazon Rainforest. Unfortunately, while this book is important, it wasn't really enjoyable to read. Jamail travels from place to place, interviewing person after person about the effects of climate change on their area of study. His interviews with experts are very numbers-heavy, and they certainly present a striking picture of human-caused climate disruption. But they weren't captivating. He didn't tell a story about the people or the animals who are being affected by this tragedy. He simply presented the facts - the deeply, deeply depressing facts. Depressing news can be delivered in a captivating way (see, e.g. Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction), but this book just felt like a slog. Unfortunately, I wouldn't recommend it.

while I would recommend this to anyone interested in or concerned about climate change I found it a very dry read and had trouble finishing it