Rough Winds Extreme Weather and Climate Change Single James Lawrence Powell
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For the last few years, and especially in 2011, a new extreme weather event seems to pop up each week. Some decide to stick around Texas and Oklahoma have been suffering from historic droughts for six months, with no sign of relief. No sooner does Hurricane Irene disappear than Tropical Storm Lee appears to flood Louisiana and stir up wildfires in nearby Texas. We seem beset by more, and more extreme, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, torrential rainstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards than any of us can remember. Are we witnessing just the normal ups and downs of the weather or is the climate changing? This book arms readers with the facts about the recent extreme weather so that they can answer that question for themselves.
Rough Winds Extreme Weather and Climate Change Single James Lawrence Powell
Near the beginning of this book, the author admits that most climate scientists take the safe route and explain that we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming. This is more or less what Powell attempts to do in his book. He stops just short of saying that global warming caused particular storms, but the goal of the book is to suggest that global warming has caused an increase in extreme weather events that is now detectable. He reviews all different sorts of severe weather from recent years including heat waves, floods, rainstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes and fires. Along with all of them, he shows how recent trends have all been towards more severe or frequent events and he attempts to explain how global warming may be fueling these. He makes a pretty good case and whether or not you are open to the connection between these events and global warming, it is still an interesting review of some big news makers from the past few years. A book like this is probably a mission impossible because naysayers will always be able to assert that we cannot prove that all of these weather events were caused by or enhanced by global warming, and for the most part they are right. However, global warming is rarely about one event, but rather about long-term trends, and it is difficult to deny that the long term trend has included some pretty rough winds of late. If you are new to the topic of global warming, this probably isn't the best book with which to start. If you already know a little something about the topic or are interested in weather, this is an interesting and quick read.Product details
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Rough Winds Extreme Weather and Climate Change Single James Lawrence Powell Reviews
Love it! if you prefer the scientific approach to extreme weather, this is the book for you. educational . I am far from a scientist, but weather and climate change has interested my for many years. I enjoy gathering information, and this book is just what I wanted
I am retired now but a couple of years ago I took a physical geography class at a local community college. I had always been interested in the subject area and well, I had the time. Long story made short, I loved it and now find myself seeking out and consuming books and other readings about how this great planet works. This book is my latest read and I am very happy to have come across it. It puts an everyday record of evidence before us that climate change is real and happening. I only hope we can be smart enough as a society to slow the inertia of what we have started. This book is a mandatory lesson.
It wasn't the most exciting read but it was extremely informative. Definatly not something that is going to keep you reading into all hours of the night but if you would like to know a bit more about climate change it has very well researched facts that open your eyes.
Do today's extreme weather events corroborate global warming? This is the question that Rough Winds attempts to answer. Skeptics will find facts to consider without which their opinion is incomplete. Those who demand a "preponderance of the evidence" before committing to action may find it here. Regardless of your opinion about global warming, if you want to be informed on this subject Rough Winds is worth reading.
Author James Lawrence Powell methodically examines the occurrence of record temperatures, drought, fires, rain and snow, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes to understand the connection between these events and climate change. He quotes government and scientific authorities worldwide each of whom expresses his or her opinion about their nation's extreme weather disasters and global warming.
Global warming is the megatrend of our lifetimes. This book serves a specific purpose it documents the geophysical evidence as of late 2011 that global warming is responsible for an increase in the frequency and severity of weather-related disasters. And it does so in a very interesting and entertaining fashion for the lay reader.
In particular I appreciate the succinct summary and conclusion chapter entitled "Playing Dice with the Planet." This is the section what I wanted to see in Powell's earlier novella "2084" as mentioned in my review of that book.
When you put all of the evidence together in one short book, the phenomenon of global warming is at once fascinating, frightening and undeniable. I rate this book four stars. See my profile for an explanation of my rating system.
When we begin creating a new vocabulary for unusual weather events, it's time to look at the scientific reasons for why our climate is changing. This Arctic Vortex, weathermen have chosen to describe the recent cold blast, might have people wondering where's the Global Warming we're supposedly expecting. It time to talk about where the warming is occurring and what the results will be for those occupied areas around our world. This book is a start!
This summer in Texas a farmer looked toward the horizon and remarked that his children first saw rain when they were four years old. Maybe he was joking, but probably not. For Texas it was the eighth drought in 13 years.
In Europe in the summer of 2003, the Danube fell to its lowest level in 100 years, exposing WWII tanks and unexploded bombs that had been submerged for six decades.
Also in 2003 during the longest, hottest summer in Europe's history, 46,000 people died because of the heat, most of them in France.
The weather extremes are the real harbinger of climate change and James Lawrence Powell documents the extremes we're experiencing as recently as August and Hurricane Irene, which was the tenth U.S. weather disaster in 2011 to cause $1 billion or more in damages. That's a record for any year in our 200-year history of charting the weather. We still have four months to go.
Heat, droughts, wildfires, rainfall, floods, blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones every year the worst the weather can deliver is rewriting the record books for the devastation and the suffering that's resulting.
Powell builds a compelling case that because of global warming we are slipping rapidly toward a tipping point the other side of which is a place almost beyond imagining. Compelling but scary stuff.
Near the beginning of this book, the author admits that most climate scientists take the safe route and explain that we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming. This is more or less what Powell attempts to do in his book. He stops just short of saying that global warming caused particular storms, but the goal of the book is to suggest that global warming has caused an increase in extreme weather events that is now detectable. He reviews all different sorts of severe weather from recent years including heat waves, floods, rainstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes and fires. Along with all of them, he shows how recent trends have all been towards more severe or frequent events and he attempts to explain how global warming may be fueling these. He makes a pretty good case and whether or not you are open to the connection between these events and global warming, it is still an interesting review of some big news makers from the past few years. A book like this is probably a mission impossible because naysayers will always be able to assert that we cannot prove that all of these weather events were caused by or enhanced by global warming, and for the most part they are right. However, global warming is rarely about one event, but rather about long-term trends, and it is difficult to deny that the long term trend has included some pretty rough winds of late. If you are new to the topic of global warming, this probably isn't the best book with which to start. If you already know a little something about the topic or are interested in weather, this is an interesting and quick read.
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