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by H Michael Mogil

Author:	H Michael Mogil
Subcategory:	Environment
Language:	English
Publisher:	New Holland Publishers Ltd; 1st Edition edition (2007)
Pages:	304 pages
Category:	Math and Science
Rating:	4.4
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Extreme Weather" is packed with high-quality images and diagrams on everything from types of storms to how to observe weather to places known for their specific extreme weather. Which layer in the atmosphere contains Earth's weather? How are strong winds maintained? How does water form clouds? What damage is caused by falling hail?

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Extreme Weather is packed with high-quality images and diagrams on everything from types of storms to how to observe weather to places known for their specific extreme weather. Which layer in the atmosphere contains Earth's weather? How are strong winds maintained? How does water form clouds? What damage is caused by falling hail? Extreme Weather, a new book in the visually stunning, groundbreaking INSIDERS series, answers all these questions and more.

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Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, unpredictable, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution-the range that has been seen in the past. Often, extreme events are based on a location's recorded weather history and defined as lying in the most unusual ten percent. In recent years some extreme weather events have been attributed to human-induced global warming, with studies indicating an increasing threat from extreme weather in the future.

Extreme Weather : Understanding the Science of Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods, Heat Waves, Snow Storms, Global Warming and Other Atmospheric Disturbances. The ultimate guide to the planet-altering effects of extreme weather, featuring full-color photos and fascinating explanations of how weather systems work'now in paperback Recent decades have brought record temperatures, devastating storms, and killer waves, which have in turn spurred widespread curiosity about how such weather systems develop.

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Extreme Weather, a new book in the INSIDERS series, answers all these questions and more. Title: Extreme Weather By: H. Michael Mogil, Barbara G. Levine Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 64 Vendor: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 2011. Packed with high quality images and diagrams on everything from types of storms, to how to observe weather, to places known for their specific extreme weather! This book approaches the topics through unique and unexpected angles, taking the reader inside the action. Dimensions: 1. 0 X . 5 (inches) Weight: 2 pounds ISBN: 1442432748 ISBN-13: 9781442432741 Ages: 8-12 Stock No: WW432741. Publisher's Description.

Find out more about Extreme Weather by H. Levine at Simon & Schuster. Extreme Weather, a new book in the visually stunning, groundbreaking INSIDERS series, answers all these questions and more

Find out more about Extreme Weather by H. Extreme Weather, a new book in the visually stunning, groundbreaking INSIDERS series, answers all these questions and more. Packed with high quality images and diagrams on everything from types of storms to how to observe weather to places known for their specfic extreme weather. Full-energy spreads approach the topics through unique and unexpected angles, taking the reader inside the action. Engaging and fun to read, this series will appeal to know-it-all kids and reluctant readers alike.

Extreme Weather is packed with high-quality images and diagrams on everything from types of storms to how to observe weather to places known for their specific extreme weather.Which layer in the atmosphere contains Earth's weather? How are strong winds maintained? How does water form clouds? What damage is caused by falling hail? Extreme Weather, a new book in the visually stunning, groundbreaking INSIDERS series, answers all these questions and more. Packed with high quality images and diagrams on everything from types of storms to how to observe weather to places known for their specfic extreme weather. Full-energy spreads approach the topics through unique and unexpected angles, taking the reader inside the action. Engaging and fun to read, this series will appeal to know-it-all kids and reluctant readers alike.

Comments:

Swift Summer

A really interesting book, good pictures everywhere, excellent science behind it all, and all sorts of weather are covered.

Shistus

My kids love all these insider books. It gives them more of a sense of the topic they are reading about. There are tons of them but they all have different authors so you have to search under insider books.

Vivaral

Great fun book

Lanionge

My Grandson loved this book

Samowar

Bought this book as a gift. It was a great book to give to my nephew who is really into this type of weather. He loves it.

Musical Aura Island

Great books for home school

Nilador

This is perfect for older kids (nine and up) who are fascinated by tornadoes, hurricanes, monsoons, drought, blizzards, and other extreme forms of weather. The illustrations are simply awesome. They really demonstrate the power of nature. The text tends to be informative but dry. I recommend it for older kids because the text here does not shy away from discussing the human toll of death and destruction that these severe weather patterns can bring about.

I just finished reading a new book by H. Michael Mogil titled "Extreme Weather". Unlike many weather books which focus on a dynamic approach (highs, lows, jet streams) to explain weather this book looks at extreme weather by event type and discusses the processes and history behind them. By "extreme" I'm talking about tornadoes, ice storms, flooding, lightning, droughts and so on. The book includes stunning photographs and clear illustrations. Some of the events mentioned are as recent as this year --which for me made the book even more relevant and fun to read.
What I really found interesting about the book is the way Mogil looks at weather extremes within the context of today's global warming discussion --something in the news every day and now even more controversial due to Al Gore's announced Nobel Prize. He doesn't outright deny the existence of global warming and our impact on the environment but rather he illustrates how factors such as long-term climate changes (our coming out of a mini ice age), relatively short weather record-keeping history, the media's preoccupation with hype and sensationalism, and people's selective memory of significant events all conspire to influence our perception. This can lead some people to believe we are in an immediate "crisis". Mogil shows how the media likes to say things like "this is the heaviest snowfall in 10 years" --something which certainly sounds extreme in the short-term but in terms of long-term weather it's probably a relatively common event. He also shows how factors such as the media's incorrect use of the term "normal" (as opposed to the more correct term "average") make extremes (which are in fact a natural range of conditions) seem even more extreme and unusual. For instance, when we say the "normal" high for today is 60 degrees and the actual high reaches 80 there's a tendency for people to say "wow, something is really wrong!" Yet in fact though this book we discover that the high temperature on this day, throughout recorded history, may have ranged from 40 to 100 degrees! Thus the average figure of 60 degrees is meaningless and misleading and the figure of 80 degrees may not be as extreme as we think.

While extreme deviations from the climatic average may be rare they don't all necessarily occur because of human influence. Factors such as improved real-time TV reporting of things like as tornadoes, brush fires, and hurricanes all bring these naturally occurring events to the forefront. The book shows how recent events such as California's brush fires, hurricanes like Katrina, and the drought in the southeast aren't necessarily more intense (in a physical sense) than past "extreme" events but rather it's their impact on people which is greater as a result of where we choose to live, how we construct our homes, and how densely we are populated. This subtle point can lead people to confuse the effects of an event with the physical intensity of an event. Mogil illustrates how easy it is to claim everything is the result of global warming when in fact many of the extreme variations can be explained by other factors --many which predate the industrial revolution.

The last chapter of the book really summed things up foe me. In fact I thought it might have made a better introduction than a conclusion. While I personally believe we humans are warming the planet I agree with Mogil that the dire predictions are probably overdone. Although our study of hyper-long climate histories through techniques such as ice core drilling and fossil stratification gives us general information about average temperature, precipitation, atmospheric gas content, and plant life, these records cannot speak for individual record events such as tornadoes, floods, droughts, and heat waves --the extreme weather-- which may have occurred throughout history. For all we know the massive EF5 tornadoes we have today may pale in comparison with tornadoes that occurred 50,000 years ago. We just don't know. In short, Mogil cautions readers not to automatically attribute extremes in weather to man-made global warming and encourages them to continue seeking and evaluating new information.

After reading this book I haven't changed my mind about our need to cut down on pollution. I haven't changed my mind that we are affecting our environment in a negative way. I also haven't changed my mind about the need for our country move away from foreign oil and our seemingly endless desire to use guns to solve problems rather than our brains. I do feel however, that I am in a better position to analyze what I'm being fed by the media and to consider that my short time on this planet is just a blink of an eye in terms of geologic time and weather history. While I still plan to purchase an electric car in 2009 I no longer feel compelled to sell my house in Oklahoma under the looming threat that it will soon be under water when the polar ice caps melt!

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