Weather by Philip Eden

Weather by Philip Eden

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Zusammenfassung

Three strands mark the progress of the weather/climate story through history and into the future: its effect on human life; our desire to predict it; and our inability to control it whilst inadvertently changing it. This book traces these strands through history and considers their future.

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Weather by Philip Eden

There are three interwoven strands which mark the progress of the weather/climate story throughout the past, during the present and into the future. These are: the effect on human life - ordinary, commercial and political; our desire and ability to predict its fluctuations; and our inability to control it at the same time as inadvertently changing it. This book traces these strands through history and offers some ideas concerning where they may go in the next 100 years. Our knowledge of the Earth's atmosphere is very limited. However we need to clarify the difference between "weather" and "climate". We must also clarify the contrast between making small controlled changes to local weather on the one hand and causing accidental and uncontrolled changes to global climate on the other. A last chapter deals with 2100 and beyond, looking at the challenges for our grandchildren and the kind of meteorology and changing climate they will face.
Philip Eden is the weather correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and presenter of his own programme on Radio Five Live.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780826461971
ISBN 10 0826461972
Titel Weather
Autor Philip Eden
Serie New Century S
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsjahr 2003-02-20
Seitenanzahl 224
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