| CHANGING PLANET, CHANGING HEALTH How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It Paul R. Epstein, MD Dan Ferber Jeffrey Sachs (Fwd.) Berkeley: University of California Press, April 2011 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-520-26909-5 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-520-26909-8 | 355pp. | HC | $27.95? | |
| Page 82: | "The world's preeminent body of climate scientists had reached consensus that human-induced climate change was under-way." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". (Elsewhere it's correct. I assume that here the hyphen was automatically inserted.) |
| Page 86: | "Black soot, formed from the incomplete combustion of diesel and other fossil fuels, consists of miniscule particles, each less than one-twentieth the width of a human hair, that are tiny enough to penetrate into ultrathin airways deep in the lung, causing respiratory disease. But they also glom onto pollen grains, and the combined particles are then carried deeper into the lungs than the pollen would penetrate alone, worsening allergies." |
| This logic escapes me. How can the combined particles, being larger than either component, enter passages where the pollen grains could not fit? |
| Page 87: | "Rising temperatures speed up the smog production from vehicle emissions, and this positive feedback amplifies the urban heat buildup." |
| Again, I fail to see the logic of this. Smog is opaque; like other aerosols, it reflects part of the sunlight that would otherwise warm the urban environment. Or is it that it traps the artificially produced heat? |
| Page 188: | "Warm water heading north warms the U.S. Northeast and allows residents of Dublin, London, and Oslo to bask in temperate conditions, even though they're at the same latitude as Anchorage." |
| This needs clarification. |
| Page 224: | Quoting Anna Barnes: "It's not lost on us that every Btu that we're buying is coming from coal." |
| It's an acronym: S/B "BTU". |
| Page 225: | No one has ever complained about the site of the tower or any noise." |
| S/B "the sight". |
| Page 226: | For example, if three homes wanted to heat some water during peak demand but there was only enough for one, the home set for the highest comfort setting would get the electricity but also pay a bit more for it." |
| Missing word: S/B "enough electricity for one". |
| Page 230: | Nanotechnology may hold great promise for solar power and batteries, but research suggest that nanoparticles made from petroleum may mimic the effect of asbestos particles on the body." |
| Number error: S/B "research suggests". |
| Page 231: | "Wave and tidal energy generation on the scale necessary to effect climate change could possibly damage the coastal ecosystems..." |
| Word choice: S/B "affect". |
| Page 246: | "High speed light rail connects to Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis..." |
| Light rail means a rail system built at grade level (on the surface) and not isolated from other transportation infrastructure such as roads. I'm not sure this is what the authors had in mind. |
| Page 253: | In order to build their enormous open pit mine in El Porvenir, a municipality in Honduras's central Siria Valley..." |
| Unpleasant portents: El Porvenir means "the future". |
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