| FIXING CLIMATE What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat—and How To Counter It Wallace S. Broecker Robert Kunzig New York: Hill and Wang, 2008 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-8090-4501-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-8090-4501-X | 253pp. | HC/GSI | $25.00 | |
| Page 5: | "His face was shaped like an interstate highway shield—a wide forehead, uncluttered by hair, narrowing to a pointy, straggly bearded chin." |
| Spelling, missing hyphen: S/B "scraggly-bearded". |
| Page 8: | "Even here, the Ice Age—which cooled the planet by fewer that 5 degrees Celsius—caused a big change in the landscape." |
| S/B "less than 5 degrees". |
| Page 24: | "It worked, and Kulp began to realize, This kid is thinking." |
| Incorrect capitalization: S/B "this". |
| Page 68: | "Laboring away in Stockholm, where the mean average temperature is less than seven degrees Celsius, a tropical hothouse climate did not sound so bad to him. |
| Dangling participle: S/B "he did not find the sound of a tropical hothouse climate so bad" or something similar. |
| Page 106: | "The driving mechanism of the thermohaline circulation is simple: the coldest, densest waters sink to the bottom of the ocean and spread out there. As they spread through the ocean, they are gradually warmed by solar heat filtering down from the surface. |
| This seems incorrect (or maybe I'm just misunderstanding it.) How can sunlight warm sea water at the bottom of the ocean? |
| Page 113: | "It was well-known that the bottoms of icebergs can be dirty with bits of rock that the mother glacier ground off the land... |
| Unneeded hyphen: S/B "well known". |
| Page 113: | "What's more, the temperature changes in the Pacific did not need to be large to create damaging decadelong droughts that had a large impact on American society. |
| Missing hyphen: S/B "decade-long". |
| Page 171: | "And we've built it on the assumption that climate will continue to be as it has been since the gold rush." |
| Capitalization: Since this is a specific historical event, S/B "the Gold Rush". |
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