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Frozen Britain: How the Big Freeze of 2010 is the Beginning of Britain's New Mini Ice Age
 
 
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Frozen Britain: How the Big Freeze of 2010 is the Beginning of Britain's New Mini Ice Age [Kindle Edition]

Gavin Cooke (Author)
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Climatologist Gavin Cooke takes a comprehensive and detailed look at global warming and the 'Big Freeze' of 2010 to explain how Britain will freeze before it fries.Gavin Cooke takes a look at climate patterns, including the bad winters of years gone by, to predict what lies ahead for Britain as the warm weather of the Gulf Stream is bypassed by the weather fronts as they approach the UK from Siberia. There was no 'barbeque summer' in 2009 and no mild winter. The big freeze of 2009/10, the coldest in almost 50 years, is only the beginning. Predicting that from 2020 Britain will be hit by a mini ice age lasting 30 years or more, the nation will be left in a state of near anarchy if preparation is not taken today.

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Frozen Britain 25 Sep 2010
By PCB
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book by a non-specialist dramatises climate change and predicts trouble for a society experiencing overpopulation and decline in oil supplies. It begins with an alarming sketch of what might happen if climate change in Britain starts now with a run of really cold winters. Sudden changes in climate have occurred many times in the past. The sun's magnetic field affects temperature in our global greenhouse. At sunspot minimum more cosmic rays enter the atmosphere and seed more clouds, which reflect sunlight and cool the earth (C.T.R.Wilson showed with his cloud chamber a century ago how droplets form round the tracks of atomic particles and the connection between cosmic rays and clouds is explored in Svensmark H, Calder N. The Chilling Stars). We are now at the beginning of what looks like a very weak sunspot cycle. If the trend continues we may be in for a repeat of the solar minimum associated with the Little Ice Age and the frozen Thames in the late 1600s. Failing food supplies could lead to conflict. Alternative energy development is suggested, particularly solar power. The book lists references and suggestions for further reading and has been reviewed elsewhere. I found the case convincing and put in some extra loft insulation, but doubtless our climate will continue to tease all theorists.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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The book 'Frozen Britain' starts off as a plausible, alternative perspective on climate change and the potential for a significant decrease in temperature in northern europe, due to the interruption of the gulf stream. However, reading through the book - which looks as if it is 'self-published' there is no clear structure for referencing and it looks as if the author pulled some of the reference material from the Daily Mail.

Some of the chapters are interesting to read through as a 'what if' scenario, but is best left to the fiction shelves rather than a scientific outlook on climate change.

The chapter on Labour party immigration policy is particularly imaginative, as I don't ever recall Labour party ministers thinking more immigrants would mean more core Labour votes - a bit far-fetched if you ask me. That chapter was one of the areas where I couldn't really see the connection with the potential cooling effects of climate change and what the author was talking about.

I didn't finish reading this book, as I figured there wasn't much point as the facts were not backed up with hard science, and wasn't structured well enough to be a fiction novel.

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
temperature errors 2 Jan 2011
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This is an interesting book with little new but written in a popular style. Unfortunately the author looses credibility quickly because of his confusion of different temperature scales. "... during the Little Ice Ages average global temperatures were 1 - 1.5 deg C (33.8 - 34.7 deg F)..." is a correct statement because these temparature are absolute. "... the Greenland Ice Sheet became 6 deg C (42.8 deg F) colder over this period of time ..." is incorrect because this is an incremental temperature change and the comparison should be 6 deg C and 10.8 deg F.

The book is littered with errors like this. The author would have been much better sticking to degrees C in every case without the comparisons. Consequntly one wonders if the author really understands the subject or has just copied material from other sources and altered the style.
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