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Lynas takes science prize

17.06.08 Anna Richardson

Mark Lynas has won this year's Royal Society science book prize for his book on global warming, Six Degrees (Fourth Estate), beating Steve Jones's Coral (Little, Brown), Ian Stewart's Why Beauty is Truth (Basic Books) and bookies' favourite J Craig Venter's A Life Decoded (Allen Lane), among others.

Also awarded yesterday (16th June) was the junior prize, which went to Rebecca Gilpin and Leonie Pratt's for their Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do (Usborne).

The organisers of the prize, which awards £10,000 to each winner and was this year supported by Beecroft Trust, are currently looking for longer-term support for 2009 onwards.

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By SUSAN HILL

But what does Mark Lynas say about the fact that since 2000 the globe has been cooling quite markedly ? This is not fantasy, it is fact which has been reliably measured.

17 Jun 08 09:20

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