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THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
A DIRE WARNING FOR OUR FUTURE.
The climatological nightmare portrayed in the motion picture The Day After Tomorrow isn't just a fantasy scenario.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen some of the most violent weather on record, from devastating tsunamis to killer hurricanes. But scientific evidence suggests "the big one" is still in the making -- will you be ready?
THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM
WHAT WILL TRIGGER IT?
Global warming is about to cause the North Atlantic current to drop to a more southerly route, sending Arctic air barreling into overheated temperate zones.
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?
Sudden, dramatic changes in climate all over the world. . . . The most severe blizzards in history. . . . 100 mile-per-hour winds. . . . Shocking death rates.
WHAT CAN WE DO TO STAVE IT OFF?
Plenty. Talk-show host Art Bell and #1 bestselling author Whitley Strieber, our leading investigators of unexplained phenomena, offer a wealth of viable solutions in this brilliant examination of modern environmental science and weather-related disasters. We can take action today to avoid
THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM.
作者简介 Art Bell is America's voice in the night, now appearing weekends on the show he created, Coast-to-Coast AM. More than fifteen million people listened to his radio show Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell from 10 PM to 2 AM nightly. Art covered topics far and wide, from gun control to near-death experiences, from politics to UFOs -- nothing is beyond Art's realm. He is also the author of The Quickening, The Art of Talk (his autobiography) and The Source. He lives in Nevada with his wife, Ramona, and three cats. Visit his website at www.artbell.com.
编辑推荐 Amazon.com
It's time to stop talking about the weather and do something about it. Paranormal superstars Art Bell and Whitley Strieber bring environmentalism to the masses tabloid-style in The Coming Global Superstorm, a quick look at global warming and its potentially catastrophic effects. Like Old Testament prophets, Bell and Strieber embrace lovingly detailed depictions of global cataclysm; unlike them, our modern-day doomsayers have more to go on than that old-time religion. Their writing is clear and straightforward, interspersing hard data with dramatization and speculation to create an engaging, enjoyable, but thoroughly spooky warning of the next Ice Age.
Scoffers would do well to remember the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, Texas, despite the clear warnings--we may have advanced our meteorological knowledge over the 20th century, but is our judgment any better? Bell and Strieber are ultimately optimistic that quick behavior change can avert the big storm for a while, even if archaeological evidence suggests its inevitability. Their solutions range from the small scale (buy fuel-efficient cars) to the grandiose (global cooperation in weather monitoring). Whether their suggestions will help is a moot question (how could we ever know?); surely, though, they won't hurt. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
The message is very scary and convincing: humankind has so polluted the environment that the world's weather is about to react by taking a "ferocious" turn. But the messengers delivering this news seem a bit flaky: Strieber wrote of his own alien abduction episode in Communion; Bell, a late-night radio talk-show host, regularly covers such topics as UFOs, government conspiracies and near-death experiences. They present an imagined sequence for the catastrophic "superstorm," threatening a possible "extinction event" for humans. It's like Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, only we're fighting the weather instead of Martians. Interspersed with this alarmist scenario are many credible facts about the effects of trapped greenhouse gasses, as well as explanations of how quickly our ecosystem has deteriorated in this century. Reading, the authors are very grave indeed, lending an otherwise dry scientific topic a heightened sense of dramaAand making it play as a thriller on tape. Simultaneous release with the Pocket hardcover. (Dec.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From AudioFile
Alien-abduction specialist Whitley "Communion" Strieber and radio talk-show host Art Bell have collaborated on a book about the alleged climactic disaster bearing down on our world. While Strieber reads their investigative research in a dry, scientific manner, Bell alternates with a colorful, chatty radio broadcast narrative of how events might actually unfold around the globe. As Strieber presents the evidence he believes points to a frozen future, Bell brings these facts to life with a very human voice and picture of the storm's impact. This book could easily be overlooked as crackpot theory but is actually a thought-provoking argument and engaging presentation well worth the investment of three hours. H.L.S. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
