epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Wood, Gillen DArcy

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-03 | Author:Mark Lynas

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics Climate change is not the only major ecological challenge facing humanity, although it is undoubtedly the most serious and urgent. Global warming is joined by other ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Raynaud, Dominique, Lorius, Claude, Jouzel, Jean

Volcanism and Solar Activity: Natural Climatic Forcings As we get closer to the current period, our knowledge of the evolution of the climate becomes increasingly detailed, both in time and ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Doug Macdougall

Figure 14.The graph that Milutin Milankovitch sent to Wladimir Köppen shows the “equivalent latitude” for 65° N in summer, based on the amount of solar energy received, for the past ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-20 | Author:James Rodger Fleming

Commercial Cloud Seeding While researchers were struggling for verifiable results, an uncritical, determined, and enthusiastic band of private meteorological entrepreneurs, operating primarily in the West and Midwest, had appropriated the ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:James Hoggan, Richard Littlemore

[ eleven ] SLAPP SCIENCE Using courts and cash to silence critics of climate confusion A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SL APP) is a lawsuit intended to intimidate and ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:James R. Holton & Gregory J. Hakim

(8.28) Integrating with respect to z yields the logarithmic wind profile: (8.29) where z0, the roughness length, is a constant of integration chosen so that at z = z0. The ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman [Klingaman, William K. & Klingaman, Nicholas P.]

8. THE PRICE OF BREAD “There has not been this whole summer one day of steady sunshine, not one day of heat, nor one night when a coverlet and blanket ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:John Hemming [Hemming, John]

CHAPTER SEVEN The Black Side of Rubber The rubber bonanza exacted a heavy price – but the victims were human, not environmental. Fortunately, tapping does not destroy rubber trees. Seringueiros’ ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-21 | Author:Q. C. Masters [Masters, Q. C.]

Laser Tag Abby arrived at Jordan's house about fifteen minutes early. She sat in her truck unsure if she should wait until ten before knocking on her door. She didn't ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Lee Sandlin [Sandlin, Lee]

11 Premonitory Symptoms In the early 1880s, curious flags began appearing in prominent places all over America. They were seen flying above post offices and railroad depots and weather stations—enormous ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Marq de Villiers

Dec. 26. Afternoon. Steve and Mary arrived at noon. They left Buzzard's Bay two days ago. Their weather service hadn't warned them. Their boat was damaged and they were exhausted, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Laurence C. Smith

Contrasting Patterns of Settlement The decision of Soviet planners to relocate millions of people and force the growth of giant cities across her coldest, most remote terrain has created one ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Heidi Cullen

Perhaps because of what Gearheard, Pearce, and others have seen personally, many scientists believe that cultural preservation, along with housing and infrastructure improvements, is an important way to help the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Fred Pearce

We now know that two main ice sheets formed. One stretched from the British Isles across the North Sea and Scandinavia, and then west through Russia and western Siberia, and ...