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
Scientists are asked "did climate change cause this storm?" and because the question is about apples and oranges (weather versus climate) their answer is always complicated. Powell's "Rough Winds" makes the answer simple. If you add "this storm" to the long list of recent extreme weather, YES! climate change predicts just such an increase.
Powell doesn't even need to go back beyond 2010 to pull out a string of severe weather events and broken temperature records that fit precisely what climate science has been telling us for decades. The wonder of an ebook meant that I was surprised to see reference to something dated last Wednesday (Texas wildfires).
A laundry list of climate disasters might make for boring reading but Powell manages to keep you glued to the page by organizing his book into an easy flow of short pieces on the weather offenders heat; drought; wildfire; rain, snow & floods; and major storms. He includes personal stories from those experiencing these impacts of climate change as well as observations of professionals. He's merciful too in that the book itself is readable in one sitting.
I was especially impressed with Powell's treatment of the facts that the Governors of Texas and Oklahoma had made public calls for prayers for rain as a response to 2011 drought.
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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