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Introducing Meteorology by Jon Shonk
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jon Shonk

Figure 10.3 The origins of air masses that affect the weather in (A) North America and (B) Europe. 10.3Low-Pressure Systems The meeting of these contrasting air masses at the polar ...
( Category: Weather February 26,2020 )
Winterlust by Bernd Brunner
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Bernd Brunner

Matthias Zdarsky, a pioneer of alpine skiing, 1905 Until well into the 1860s, hardly anyone traveled into the Swiss mountains in winter to vacation there. As soon as the first ...
( Category: Weather February 26,2020 )
The Emerald Planet by David Beerling
epub |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:David Beerling

In his research on gases, Tyndall convincingly demonstrated that ‘perfectly colourless and invisible gases’ differed enormously in their abilities to absorb radiant heat. He correctly identified carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous ...
( Category: Paleontology February 23,2020 )
A Storm Too Soon by Michael J. Tougias
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Tougias

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN TETHER OURSELVES TOGETHER Drowning and hypothermia are the first two obstacles that JP, Rudy, and Ben will have to overcome to stay alive through the day, but not ...
( Category: Weather February 18,2020 )
An Appeal to Reason by Lawson Nigel
epub |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Lawson, Nigel

Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusion: A Convenient Religion It is time to reach a conclusion. As we have seen, perhaps the most surprising fact about global warming, given that nowadays ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 18,2020 )
Man vs. Weather by Dennis DiClaudio
epub |eng | 2018-11-30 | Author:Dennis DiClaudio

( Category: Natural Disasters February 18,2020 )
Waters of the World by Sarah Dry
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Sarah Dry [Dry, Sarah]

FIG. 5.8. Joanne and Herbert Riehl puzzling over hurricanes, in a cartoon by Margaret LeMone. Note the “real hand-analyzed data” and the big question: “Why are there so few hurricanes?” ...
( Category: Oceanography February 17,2020 )
Vanishing Ice by Vivien Gornitz
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Vivien Gornitz

Further Cooling During the Pliocene Epoch, 5.3 to 3 million years ago, the WAIS expanded and contracted repeatedly.9 These climate cycles, lasting roughly 40,000 years, marched in step with the ...
( Category: Oceanography February 16,2020 )
Sunburnt Country by Joelle Gergis
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Joelle Gergis [Gergis, Joelle]

27 NATURAL VARIABILITY VERSUS HUMAN INFLUENCE Before the Industrial Revolution kicked off around 1750, the Earth’s climate was almost purely operating under natural conditions. Because the human population was still ...
( Category: Weather January 19,2020 )
The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero by Brett Favaro
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Brett Favaro

PURCHASE COST The first challenge with current EVs is the initial cost of buying them. EVs targeted at the mass market are more expensive than an “equivalent” ICE car. For ...
( Category: Weather January 19,2020 )
Brave New Arctic by Serreze Mark C
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Serreze, Mark C. [Serreze, Mark C.]

EPIPHANY The new century dawned. Arctic changes became ever more obvious and now clearly included the Greenland ice sheet, ice caps, and glaciers. Even the landscape was changing, with areas ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 19,2020 )
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Geoffrey Parker [Parker, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Americas, Africa and Australia1 Most of the surviving human and natural archives from the mid-seventeenth century relate to Europe and Asia. Despite the immense size of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
Life by Tim Flannery
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Tim Flannery

Oolacunta! 2004 I’M WRITING THESE words in 2003, on my way home from London where I’ve been studying some of Australia’s most interesting mammals. It’s been a sad pilgrimage, but ...
( Category: Conservation January 17,2020 )
The Great Flood by Edward Platt
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Platt

7: Little Venice RIVER DREAMS: YALDING, JANUARY 2014, & MORPETH, 2008 It was not an easy Christmas for the residents of Yalding, which lies six miles south-west of Maidstone, in ...
( Category: Geography December 17,2019 )
The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Brian Fagan

8 “MORE LIKE WINTER THAN SUMMER” When the land is inclosed, so as to admit of sowing turnips, clover, or other grass seeds, which have an improving and meliorating tendency, ...
( Category: Environmental Science December 17,2019 )

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