James Donaldson’s Book Review – Global Weirdness by Climate Central

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Global Weirdness

I thought the author did a very good job in laying out a lot of the issues and challenges that our world is facing pertaining to climate change and global warming. He uses “not too technical language” so that even everyday laypeople can understand the content. He goes through about 60 different bullet points and answers them all in as great of detail as possible, with what is known at this point in time based on the scientific research.

I know that “climate change and global warming” are very hot and controversial political topics, but there’s no denying, that “a lot of strange occurrences” have been happening with our global climate over the last decade or so if we’ve been paying attention.  Is anyone wondering why here in North America, our summers have been hotter and drier, and our winters, have been shorter and more harsh (generally speaking) than in recent memory?  That the hurricanes/typhoons, that have been battering a lot of the Asian countries during late summer’s, have been more devastating than ever?  Even here in the great “Pacific Northwest” we have enjoyed one of the “driest” summers/fall on record, and here we are, soon to go into the month of December, and we are still getting mild temperatures in the 50s.

If this but doesn’t create an “eye-opening” moment for you, probably nothing will until the sea levels are lapping at your front door if you are close to coastline property. Or, rising temperatures are causing massive hurricanes, and fuel shortages are happening throughout the world. It’s time to do something people, this can be a great reference book for all of us to springboard from.

Listed here, are several excerpts of topic headings that are covered in this book, and that I found very informative and interesting.

– “normal” climate meant something much different to the dinosaurs and wooly mammoths than it does to us
– the climate has changed dramatically in the past
– our ancestors survive climate changes, but it wasn’t always pretty
– dinosaurs didn’t drive gas guzzlers or use air-conditioning
– carbon dioxide is like a planet wearing a “sweatsuit”
– the northern hemisphere has heated up greater over the last 50 years than any time in the last centuries, and more than any other part of the world
– The United States emits 19.9 metric tons of CO2 per person per year.
– Non-industrialized countries emit 8.4 metric tons of CO2 per person per year
– The rest of the world emits 2.4 metric tons of CO2 per person per year
– the growing season in the United States is two weeks longer than it was in 1900

This book was written and published by Climate Central — a highly regarded, independent, nonprofit journalism and research organization founded in 2008 — and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we already know about the science of climate change. It explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future and lays out in practical terms what we can and cannot do to avoid further shifts.

If you have any concern, or curiosity, about global warming/climate change, this would be a great book for you to dive into and learn so much more about what is going on (despite what our politicians and leaders are saying).

http://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Technology/Global-Weirdness-Audiobook/B008I6BPFC/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1416331531&sr=1-1

 

 

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