Hurricanes to Antarctica
Author | : Alfred Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781939132062 |
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Author | : Alfred Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781939132062 |
Author | : DK |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2021-12-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 074406046X |
With striking images, models, and illustrations, this visually-led reference e-guide offers a unique view of catastrophic weather conditions. See inside the eye of a cyclone, witness hailstones the size of tennis balls, and learn how a gentle mountain stream can become a raging surge within a few minutes. From full-page color photographs to helpful diagrams, from polar regions to the tropics, Eyewitness Hurricane & Tornado shows the disastrous effects of nature's most extreme weather events. Discover a bridge that collapsed due to severe gusts of wind, and learn about a tree species in southwest Africa that can survive several years of drought. Along the way you'll uncover historical items that reveal how ancient civilizations predicted the weather as well as the weather-forecasting techniques that have developed over the centuries and the ways in which human activity can cause weather patterns to change. Each revised Eyewitness book retains the stunning artwork and photography from the groundbreaking original series, but the text has been reduced and reworked to speak more clearly to younger readers. The vibrant annotated photographs and the integrated text-and-pictures approach make Eyewitness a perennial favorite of parents, teachers, and school-age kids.
Author | : United States. Naval Oceanographic Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Pilot guides |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Pilot guides |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick J. Michaels |
Publisher | : Cato Institute |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2009-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1935308041 |
There's a whole new world of global warming science today, but few people hear about it. In recent years, an internally consistent body of scientific literature has emerged that argues cogently for global warming but against the gloom-and-doom vision of climate change. But those who merely call attention to this literature are intimidated, blacklisted, and even driven from prestigious scientific employment. Calling the current scientific environment a "climate of extremes" is an understatement. It's a fact that there are fewer citations in the refereed scientific literature providing evidence for the moderate view of global warming, but that's to be expected. In Climate of Extremes, climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain that climate science is hardly unbiased, even though the global climate community itself believes that any new finding has an equal probability of making our climatic future appear more or less dire. Michaels and Balling examine all aspects of the apocalyptic vision of climate change making headlines almost every day: Hurricanes pumped up by global warming, rapid melting of Greenland and Antarctica resulting in 20 feet of sea-level rise in the next 90 years, that global warming is occurring at an increasing pace, and there is a massive increase in heat-wave related deaths. Each one of these pop-culture icons of climate change turns out to be short on facts and long on exaggeration. People who read Climate of Extremes will emerge well-armed against an army of extremists hawking climate change as the greatest threat ever to our society and way of life.
Author | : Matti Seppälä |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2004-06-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521564069 |
A 2004 monograph describing wind-generated polar landforms, both modern-day and those preserved in the geological record.
Author | : Jim Mastro |
Publisher | : Bulfinch Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780821227541 |
From the aurora australis to Bird Island, a photojournalist takes readers on his journey to the harsh, desolate, yet beautiful place that is Antarctica. 120 color photos.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Antarctica |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Antarctica |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gabrielle Walker |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1408824639 |
There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the landscape, for example - but none has managed to capture whole story, till now. Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent. Antarctica weaves all the significant threads into an intricate tapestry, made up of science, natural history, poetry, epic history, what it feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people back there again and again. It is only when all the parts come together that the underlying truths of the continent emerge. Antarctica is the most alien place on Earth, the only part of our planet where humans could never survive unaided. It is truly like walking on another planet. And yet, in its silence, its agelessness and its mysteries lie the secrets of our past, and of our future.