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 …
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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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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2010 Diary week 17 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Last week the first part of Global Warming: The Complete Briefing was reviewed. This week Part II points out that “As the great ice-sheet over North America began to melt at the end of the last ice age, the melt water at …
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GLOBAL WARMING THE COMPLETE BRIEFING JOHN HOUGHTON Co-Chairman of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS REPRINTED 1999 PART I Introduction to the First Edition It is only during the last thirty years or so that human activities have been of such a kind or on a …
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2010 Diary week 16 Book Review Volcanic eruptions, global warming, climate change, weather extremes This week there will be a break in book reviews on gardening, farming and food production to move on to books dealing with volcanic eruptions, global warming, climate change, weather extremes. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing provides the basic information required …
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2010 Diary week 15 The garden With the warm weather following recent rain the grass has grown rapidly and needs continually attention. I have found the strimmer to be the most practical tool for keeping the property tidy. I have also been planting seeds and transplanting purchased plants – tomatoes, peppers and egg plants. Book …
2010 Diary week 14 Gardening The weather has turned warm. We have been planting purchased plants and seeds ready for later transplanting. Book Review Last week Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? pointed out that between 1951 and 1985, Israel expanded its irrigated area fivefold with only a threefold increase in water use. …
2010 Diary week 13 The garden Pruning of olive trees was completed this week. Rather than burn the prunings I used as much as possible for fire wood and kindling and composted the remainder. Book Review Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? points out that “water scarcity is now the single biggest threat …
