El Niño: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446524816 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"El Nino Deconvoluted" according to Trish. Ms. Nash has done an admirable job of reconstructing the research background on this topic. Her book will certainly increase the public understanding of El Nino and meteorology in general. A downside for me was writing the book as if it were an article in a waiting room magazine e.g. p11El Nino Deconvoluted Ms. Nash has done an admirable job of reconstructing the research background on this topic. Her book will certainly increase the public understanding of El Nino and meteorology in general. A downside for me was writing the book as if it were an article in a waiting room magazine e.g. p113 "Painted a gay red and white, these doughnut-shaped buoys sported whirligig instruments known as anemometers for measuring wind speeds and jaunty antennas.)" This is annoying to someone who is seriously intersted in this fascinating phenomenon.. "Painted a gay red and white, these doughnut-shaped buoys sported whirligig instruments known as anemometers for measuring wind speeds and jaunty antennas.)" This is annoying to someone who is seriously intersted in this fascinating phenomenon.. An historical storm J. J. Kwashnak Warm wet winters, hot dry summers - calling cards of the weather pattern El Nino. How something so huge, impacting so many lives across the globe was not recognized truly until the past couple of decades is one of the points that Nash tries to make. After the first few chapters, looking at historical meteorological records and the understanding of El Nino, she continues on and places this weather maker in a larger historical, social and political context. How El Nino and La Nina patterns can affect disease spread, the life cycles of other animals and coral, and the growth and destruction of civilizations are topics for exploration. For. More than a storm magmolian Nash brings a complex subject to life through stories of the maverick, and occasionally ridiculed, scientists who hunted El Nino over the centuries. She has a delicate touch and paints vivid images of El Nino's glory and its fury, effortlessly explaining seemingly impenetrable science to make it relevant and, more importantly, interesting to the lay reader. Nash has a journalist's way of getting to the point, so there's nothing extraneous is this tightly written narrative. If you liked "Longitude", "Cod", or "Guns, Germs & Steel", or you're simply a fan of the Weather Channel, "El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
What those scientists have learned, Nash tells us, underscores the interconnectedness--and, in her words, the "teleconnectiveness"--of the world's ecological systems. Moreover, Nash writes, El Niño touches billions of human lives, taking a role in the spread of diseases such as hantavirus and threatening food and water supplies. El Niño may be born in the subtropical waters of the western Pacific (where, among other things, it has helped spark great firestorms in Australia and drought in Indonesia), but its influence extends around the globe. --Gregory McNamee. With the ever-growing human population and the enduring presence of the weather system and its cyclical counterpart, things are only likely to get worse, she tells us: "the torrential rains and searing droughts connected with future El
Mark Twain said that everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. Madeleine Nash tells the story of scientists past and present, around the world, who did something about the incredible weather phenomenon of El Nino (and his contrary sister La Nina), which can create drought in some of the world's most tropical areas while creating havoc- wreaking storm systems on the opposite side of the globe. In El Nino, award-winning Time magazine science writer J. For over a century and a half, scientists and explorers added links of knowledge to a chain of observations that at last created a picture of what they call Enso: El Nino Southern Oscillation, a picture that contains within it the interplay of wind, water, and geothermal forces that violently affects the world's weather.