| OUR FRAGILE MOMENT How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis Michael E. Mann New York: PublicAffairs, 26 September 2023 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-5417-0289-9 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-5417-0289-1 | 306pp. | HC/BWI | $30.00 | |
| Page 10: | "It was almost eight miles wide, traveling 30,000 miles per hour (more than three times faster than the speed of sound), creating a hundred-mile-wide crater..." |
| The speed of sound in air at STP is about 761 mph. So the asteroid was traveling 3 times faster than that, but a better speed comparison would be to say it traveled 39.4 times the speed of sound. |
| Page 45: | "Divide by four to account for the spherical shape of Earth's surface, and multiple because more than thirty percent of the incoming sunlight is reflected back to space." |
| Spelling: S/B "multiply". |
| Page 46: | "It had oceans that were teaming with microbes." |
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| Page 79: | "Thick, low stratus clouds provide a stabilizing feedback because, like ice, they reflect outgoing sunlight back to space." |
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| Page 90: | "Some protagonists, like scientist-turned-doomsayer Guy MacPherson, insist that such a scenario is underway now—that large reservoirs of previously frozen methane have been mobilized..." |
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| Page 121: | "At the opposite end of the spectrum of Snowball Earth is Hothouse Earth." |
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| Page 141: | "But the conclusions we draw from these periods are laden in caveats." |
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| Page 163: | "The changes in insolation from obliquity (Earth's tilt)during the key Arctic summer is more than ten times larger." |
| Number error: S/B "change". |
| Page 176: | "...the process of marine ice-sheet destabilization is already underway on Thwaites Glacier." |
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| Page 176: | "He and colleagues have concluded that similar behavior may be underway for Pine Island Glacier." |
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| Page 200: | "...the most comprehensive recent study [. . .] argues that AMOC collapse is underway." |
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| Page 227: | "Once the air near the surface reaches 118°F, it no longer provides enough buoyancy for liftoff to be achieved before the accelerating aircraft reaches the end of the runway." |
| Word choice: is "buoyancy" the correct word? |
| Page 239: | "We already see challenges to that stability from political movements that are underway and growing competition over diminishing natural resources." |
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