Meteorology category: 1039 books
The Year Without Summer
1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816...
by W. A. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity:...
Grade 1 Geography: Discovery For Kids
Flags Of The World Grade One
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Wow! Geography just got a whole lot interesting with amazing concepts outlined to make learning fun. The idea is to get a child used to the different parts of the world by going on an imaginary adventure. Famous landmarks are included, as well as some basic information per country. Don't be surprised if you'll be bombarded with questions on foreign places and cultures!
Authors of the Storm
Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, “the weather” is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government meteorologists and forecasters go about their...
Tornado Hunter
Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis,...
This is Planet Earth
Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The Earth as you've never seen it before.
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.
Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing...
by Sussman, Brian
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Those now notorious intercepted emails documenting leading scientists conspiring to squelch global-warming skeptics and falsifying data proved exactly what Brian Sussman has been saying for years. Climategate is intended for anyone who has ever expressed skepticism about the clamorous environmentalist...
Coming Famine
The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land, energy,...
Changing Planet, Changing Health
How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice—it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places...
Hubris
The Troubling Science, Economics, and Politics of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book explores problems and issues that have emerged in national and international discussion of policies to address climate change. It concludes that every solution put forward by the UN and activists poses more problems than might ever emerge from the marginal human impact on natural climate...
Earthmasters
The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?”...
Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
Highlights...
18 Miles
The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
“With wit and a humbling sense of wonder, this is a book that can be shared and appreciated by a wide audience who now religiously check their phones for daily forecasts.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“This terrific, accessible, and exciting read helps us to better understand...
by National Geographic
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Severe weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes have increased fourfold in the last two decades, shaking the foundations of our existence. Weather-related tragedies have fascinated humans throughout time. For those who loved The Perfect Storm andKrakatoa, the millions who log onto daily weather...