The Last Generation/With Speed and Violence

Tuike

I just read the book. It's like a tanker full of liquid doom gas. It's about global warming. According to the writer, the books name Last Generation doesn't mean that mankind would become extinct, but we are the last generation that enjoys stable climate. Earth has got two periods on stable climate, when it was a snowball long time ago and nowadays. It says IPCC's models about gradually changing climate are wrong. The west Antarctica could splash into sea in a day. Climate doesn't take a century to go crazy, a decade or less will do. The book covers the consequenses of warming climate and what affects the warming. There's not much new if you have been reading the environment section of this forum actively. There was at least one thing I didn't know that there are particles in the air that cleanse the air from pollutants and those particeles are being overwhelmed from increasing pollution. The text is more difficult than in the works of Al Gore.

Niagara

I haven't read the book yet, but I agree with what you're saying.

Look at the Amazonia for example. Traditional logic has said the rainforests are disappearing at x% (say, 2%) per year. Therefore they will be gone in 50 years; 100/x. Not so. The rainforests may be completely gone in 1 or 2 years if the droughts continue.

I don't put a lot of stock in computer models. Same as the Greenland glaciers melting. The computer models never considered the meltwater trickling down and making the underlying rock slippery. Doubling the speed the ice shelves slide and tumble into the sea.

Thanks for the tip, that book sounds interesting.
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Heineken

Unfortunately, this UK book is not readily available in the US. Possibly it has been suppressed here.

I found a few copies available from private sellers via Amazon.com, in some cases at exorbitant prices.

Here's a review of the book:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article1204975.ece
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Tuike

Here's the table of contents of the book

1. The Pioneers - The men who measured the planet's breath
2. Turning Up the Heat - A sceptic's guide to climate change
3. The Year - How the wild weather of 1998 broke all records
4. The Anthropocene - A new name for a new geological era
5. The Watchtower - Keeping the climate vigil on an Arctic island
6. Ninety Degrees North - Why melting knows no bounds in the far north
7. On the Slippery Slope - Greenland is slumping into ocean
8. The Shelf - Down south, shattering ice uncorks the Antarctic
9. The Mercer Legacy - An Achilles' heel at the bottom of the world
10. Rising Tides - Saying toodle-oo to Tuvalu
11. In the Jungle - Would we notice if Amazon went up in smoke?
12. Wild Fires of Borneo - Climate in the mire from burning swamp
13. Sink to Source - Why the carbon cycle is set for a U-turn
14. The Doomsday device - A lethal secret stirs in the permafrost
15. The Acid Path - What carbon dioxide does to the oceans
16. The Wind of change - Tsunamis, megafarts and mountains on the deep
17. What's watts? - Planet Earth's energy imbalance
18. Clouds from Both Sides - Uncovering flaws in the climate models
19. A Billion Fires - How haze could turn off the monsoon
20. Hydroxyl Holiday - The day the planet's cleaner didn't show up for work
21. Goldilocks and the Three Planets - Why Earth is 'just right' for life
22. The Big Freeze - How a wobble in orbit triggered the ice ages
23. The Ocean Conveyor - The real day after tomorrow
24. An Arctic Flower - Clues to climate switchback
25. The Pulse - How the sun make climate change
26. The fall - The end of Africa's golden age
27. See-saw Across the ocean - How Saharan desert greens the Amazon
28. Tropical High - Why an ice man is rewriting the history
29. The Curse of Akkad - The Strange revival of enviromental determinism
30. A Chunk of Coral - Probing the hidden life of El Nino
31. Feeding Asia - What happens if rains fail
32. The Heatwave - The year Europe felt the heat of global warming
33. The Hockey Stick - Why now is really different
34. Hurricane Season - Raising the storm cones after Katrina
35. Ozone Holes in the Greenhouse - Why millions face radiation threat
36. The Dance - Poles of the tropics? Who leads the climate dance?
37. New Horizons - Feedback from the stratosphere
Conclusion: Another Planet

Heineken

Looks like he's got all the bases covered.

As I keep saying lately, it's not pretty.
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"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother

evilmonkeyspanker

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Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5433 Location: Oklahoma

I got this book from the UK, but it's also available in the US under the title "With Speed and Violence":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807085766/

I changed the thread subject to reflect both titles.
{Fixed that title for you - TheTurtle}
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