Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather

Mike Smith

ISBN 10: 1608320340 / ISBN 13: 9781608320349

Verlag: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2010

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Experience the most devastating storms of the last fifty years through the eyes of the scientific visionaries who took them on and tamed them. For decades, the author, a pioneering meteorologist, has dedicated himself to saving lives by combining science, experience, and instinct. The struggle to understand nature's fury provides fascinating insights into the natural forces that shape our world, and the turbulent politics that influence our scientific establishment. Tracing the Herculean effort to improve weather forecasting and advanced warning systems, the author draws fascinating biographical sketches of the scientists behind the breakthroughs, such as Dr Theodore Fujita, creator of the Fujita Scale for tornado measurement. With its gripping story-telling approach to major natural disasters, "Warnings" is narrative non-fiction at its heart-pounding best.

Von der hinteren Coverseite: Warnings - The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather tells the compelling, previously untold story of how the science of weather forecasting has become the most effective science at saving lives: More than cardiology, cancer research, or traffic safety. Thousands of lives are saved every year -- at a very low cost to society. Like The Right Stuff and Rocket Boys, Warnings is a work of narrative non-fiction a first-person backstory of those who have dedicated their lives to the science of storms and the creation life-saving storm warning technology. They have toiled largely in anonymity outside the scientific world, until now. This book tells their amazing, unexpected story.

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Titel: Warnings: The True Story of How Science ...
Verlag: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: very_good