THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART II Chapter 4: The Return of the Dust Bowl (Continued) Wheat, rust, and prickly pears Wheat is the second most important US grain and comprises about 17% of our total grain production. There are seven different monthly mean precipitation and temperature variables that significantly influence …
2010 Diary week 22 Global warming and food production Book Review Part II of The Greenhouse Effect points out that “During the dust bowl days the average July temperature in western Kansas, the nation’s largest wheat-producing region, rose from 79ºF to 82ºF. July precipitation diminished 57%.” “Much of the irrigation in the wheat belt comes …
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART I Introduction Before the end of the next four decades, easily within the lifespans of many of us, the climate of the earth may be warmer than at any time in the past thousand years. By the middle of the next century, within the lifetimes …
2010 Diary week 21 Global warming and food production Book Review Part I of The Greenhouse Effect, published in 1980, points out that “The next major drought in the West will occur around the year 2000. But it is not with that drought that this book is concerned. It is the one likely to strike …
THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS 1999 PART III Chapter 3: Ice Ages and Greenhouse Gases (Continued) Carbon dating Between 1850 and 1986, the burning of fossil fuels released nearly 200 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere and deforestation to convert land for agriculture added another 120 gigatonnes. …
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2010 Diary week 20 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part III of The Breakdown of Climate points out that “In 1958 carbon dioxide levels had reached 315 ppmv. Forty years later, levels were up 50 ppmv. The annual pulse raises the concentration by 7 ppmv in May, from its low in …
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THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS 1999 PART II Chapter 1: The Nature and History of Climate (continued) Climate and misery The change to a less hospitable climate appears to have come abruptly. The late medieval period was marked by colder weather which was most severe during the …
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2010 Diary week 19 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part II of The Breakdown of Climate points out that “The decade 1310-20 was disastrous, especially in Northern Europe. Wet, miserable summers meant that crops failed to ripen and millions of people starved.” “In Scotland in the 1430s, as in Sweden, successive …
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2010 Diary week 18 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review A few snippets from Part I of The Breakdown of Climate, published in 1999: “El Niňo used to appear every few years, at most twice every decade. Over the past two decades it has even appeared several times in a row and …
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THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS 1999 PART I Introduction The modern world Today we live in a man-made world that we isolate as far as possible from the elements. Ironically, our attempts to control our immediate environment have exacerbated the very problem we are trying to avoid …
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