We Have All Been Preoccupied with the Weather These Past Few Months, and the Library has a Good Selection of Book That Address This Important Aspect of Our Lives. The New 'Firefly Guide to the Weather' Is the Sort of Field Guide You'd Want at Hand While W

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Perhaps because it is dangerous and uncontrollable, we are most fascinated by the violent phenomena of weather. "Extreme Weather, a Guide and Record Book" has statistics for more than 100 years and information about the worst weather in the world. Mark Svenhold follows an eccentric group of people in "Big Weather, Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America." Here the tornado becomes a celebrity itself as people hunt it, film it, and even try to drive through it.

Anthropologist Brian Fagan searches the archaeological record to describe the climate of the last 15,000 years in "The Long Summer, How Climate Changed Civilization." He tells how, in the sixth century, increased rainfall in East Africa spread rat populations and thus bubonic plague throughout the Mediterranean area, then Europe. Human societies have always had to adapt to the weather of their time or perish, but now man has become even more vulnerable to climate change. Although we can better control the smaller stresses of climate such a short term drought, our losses from catastrophic events such as hurricanes are greater than ever. With our immense building investment and large populations in even the most fragile areas, we have much more to lose when weather makes a significant change.

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We Have All Been Preoccupied with the Weather These Past Few Months, and the Library has a Good Selection of Book That Address This Important Aspect of Our Lives. The New 'Firefly Guide to the Weather' Is the Sort of Field Guide You'd Want at Hand While W

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