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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, earthquakes, and eruptions killing thousands, turning millions into refugees, and leaving whole cities in shocked, shattered ruins.
Of nature's...
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Whether ruining a commute or devastating entire countries, inclement weather has the power to capture attention and headlines. This book examines the science that gives us a greater understanding of the patterns that produce hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, and a host of related conditions. It also discusses another persistent issue of inclement weather, which is how to better predict climatic extremes.
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Australia's favourite science guru explains the facts about climate change - and how we can fix it
Is the planet reeeeeally warming up?
But carbon's natural, isn't it?
How could planes fly without fossil fuels?
What's a pteropod and why should I care?
Kelp? How can it help?
One of Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki's jobs as Australia's most popular science communicator is to answer people's questions about climate change.
Now, in this never dull, easy-to-understand...
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Barometers and hygrometers are important weather instruments that meteorologists use to gather and analyze data. This book will not only show what these two instruments look like, but it will also explain what they measure. Expect to read about humidity and air pressure and how they are used to understand weather patterns. This book ends with an activity that guides you through making your own barometers and hygrometers.
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As a fixture in recent headlines, the Earth's climate has commanded much attention. While environmental and atmospheric conditions in large part determine the climate of a region, the impact of human activity has increasingly become a significant factor as well. This is especially true concerning significant climate changes, commonly known as global warming. New technologies and an ever-expanding population have contributed to worldwide climate shifts...
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The weather has always dominated our daily lives and it remains our favourite topic of conversation. We all want to know what the weather will be for the week ahead in order to plan our days. But how reliable are the forecasts? Stan Yorke has written a short guide that explains in simple language the basic weather principles, and it has a special illustrated section on how to read skies and clouds. The book allows us to properly interpret daily weather...
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Meteorologists do a very important job, and this book will give you an inside look of what they do. Here, you will learn to read weather maps. You will read about pressure systems, fonts, and other features of weather maps and charts. You will also learn about symbols commonly used in weather maps and charts. So, the next time you listen to a weather broadcast, you'll know exactly what they mean.
88) La meteorología
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El hombre se ha interesado por predecir los fenómenos meteorológicos desde la más remota Antigüedad, debido a la importante influencia que dichos fenómenos tienen en el desarrollo de la vida en general; no obstante, la meteorología, como ciencia, es relativamente joven. Gracias a sus teorías y estadísticas, en la actualidad podemos entender cómo tienen lugar los distintos fenómenos meteorológicos y explicar con exactitud las causas que...
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Una estación meteorológica posible se constituye en una herramienta, no sólo para la recolección de valiosos datos en lugares apartados, sino también como un excelente ejercicio académico para que niños y estudiantes conozcan algunos conceptos de clima e identifiquen patrones del tiempo atmosférico y su relación con la vida diaria (e.g. comportamieto de las aves, floración, formación de lluvias, prácticas agrícolas), aprendiendo mediante...
90) Name Your Price
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Come take a unique journey with this author. The journey starts with a one-room country school. It includes him becoming a Professor and Research Scientist with many other interesting talents. Joe Eagleman tells in this autobiography about the many facets of his life. His tornado research resulted in changes to national safety rules. His invention of a miniature tornado was used as the pattern for the Universal Studios Twister in Orlando, and for
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"Jean Jouzel, one of the two winners of the Vetlesen Prize of the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation for 2012" Jean Jouzel, Claude Lorius, and Dominique Raynaud are internationally acclaimed scientists who have won many awards for their work documenting long-term climate change through the study of deep ice cores. Jouzel and Raynaud are members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Lorius was awarded the 2009 Blue Planet Prize.
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El cambio climático es el problema científico más importante de nuestro tiempo, catalizador de un profundo cambio social basado en nuestra percepción del mismo. Mientras que muchos libros explican lo que ya sabemos sobre el cambio climático, este libro explora lo que admitimos que no entendemos sobre él (las incógnitas conocidas). Al hacerlo, revela un mecanismo del cambio climático que hasta ahora se había pasado por alto, que opera en segundo...
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As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us. Called for in the President's Climate Action Plan and put together by experts from eight different Federal agencies, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment is a comprehensive report on these evolving health risks, including:
Temperature-related death and illness
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Flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, thunderstorms, and wildfires - these devastating events are happening around the world at an alarming rate. As a Meteorologist on CNN and HLN, Bonnie Schneider reports on these natural disasters, explaining when they're likely to strike, and telling viewers how to respond when they do. In Extreme Weather, Schneider distills that information into a guide for readers. She interviews experts...
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The shocking inside story of the fight to halt climate change over the past twenty-five years by a world-renowned scientist.
Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognised?
Here, for the first time, climate scientist Peter Stott reveals the bitter fight to get international recognition for what, among scientists, has been...
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El oficio de fisiólogo implica desarrollar modelos en el laboratorio para poder hacer predicciones sobre lo que ocurrirá en las personas, y es entonces cuando nuestro escritor comienza a observar, e indudablemente se convierte en un humano desesperado, que quiere compartir con sus lectores unas reflexiones de lo que percibe. Su formación de científico lo conduce a elaborar este texto desde un ejercicio del pensamiento crítico, analizando, entendiendo...
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Remarkable revelations of nature's diversity, revealed in hundreds of snowflake images taken by American photographer Bentley during a 50-year period. Over 850 illustrations of snow crystals, with no two designs exactly alike, will inspire artists, designers, and craftspeople in search of extraordinary patterns for textiles, wallpaper, and other creative projects.
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The science is in: Global warming is for real. But what does it all really mean, and what can or should we do about it? This clear, fluid narrative by a leading scientist and educator takes a scrupulously balanced approach in explaining for the reader the history of global climate monitoring and change, and the who's, how's, what's, when's, where's and why's of the interaction between human activity and recent trends in the Earth's climate.
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Le titre de cette étude aurait dû être : « Du magnétisme en général et du magnétisme de la terre en particulier »; mais on a désigné aussi par le nom de magnétisme un ensemble de phénomènes physiologiques bien plus connus des gens du monde que le magnétisme proprement dit, qui est du ressort de la physique et de la météorologie. Or il ne s'agira ici que des propriétés physiques et de la théorie de l'aimant, enfin, de la terre considérée...
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Sur le plan scientifique, la géothermie s'attache à l'étude du régime thermique du globe et aux mécanismes de transfert thermique — conductifs et convectifs. Elle tente d'intégrer l'ensemble des données géologiques, géochimiques et géophysiques dans des modèles satisfaisants. Abstraction faite ...
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