| CLIMATE CRASH Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future John D. Cox Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2005 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-309-09312-5 | ||||
| ISBN 0-309-09312-0 | 215pp. | HC/GSI | $22.95 | |
| Page 68: | "A century later, of course, the close relationship between temperature and greenhouse gases would become critical in the context of another climate puzzle." |
| And that other puzzle is ___? |
| Page 101: | "After 20 years, the link between atmospheric CO2 and ice age temperatures still has yet to be explained..." |
| It seems Mr. Cox works for the department of redundancy department. |
| Page 108: | "About 11,000 years ago, the retreat of the ice closed off the lake's southern outlet through the Mississippi River basin into the Gulf of Mexico and opened a new channel eastward through the St. Lawrence into the North Atlantic." |
| Cox doesn't explain how this happened — until page 151. |
| Page 128: | "You test ideas discard what doesn't seem to work, and move on." |
| Missing comma: S/B "test ideas, discard". |
| Page 130: | "It was oceanographers whose discovery in the 1950s of spreading mid-ocean ridges that had sparked the theory of plate tectonics and finally confirmed Alfred Wegener's concept of continental drift." |
| Extra word: S/B "had sparked". |
| Page 178: | "He wrote with a Swiss accent, but his work also had a distinctive style and flare, Herman Zimmerman recalled..." |
| S/B "flair". (Pesky homonyms!) |
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