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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.
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This is an arresting book which is readable and easy to understand dramatising climate change and predicting trouble ahead for a society already experiencing overpopulation and decline in oil supplies. It begins with a rather 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 background theory documented in the book is that the changing sun more than CO2 determines temperature in our global greenhouse, in the short term by magnetic changes linked to the sunspot cycle. 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 following ones are even weaker we may be in for a solar minimum like the one associated with the Little Ice Age and the frozen Thames in the late 1600s. Food security in the face of expanding population, diminishing oil, subsidized biofuel, droughts and floods is already marginal and when worsened by climate change will lead to conflict. One possible mitigation would be a vast development of alternative energy, particularly solar power. The book has been reviewed elsewhere. The author is a non-specialist which is perhaps why he can explain ideas well to other non-specialists and draw some imaginative conclusions from them. He is numerate and does not simply parrot the ideas of others. There are references and suggestions for further reading. I found the case convincing and put in some extra loft insulation, but doubtless our climate will continue to tease all theorists.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Fine as fictional writing,
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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. ...
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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temperature errors,
By Mr. G. Steele "Practical senior citizen" (Rochdale, Lancs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Frozen Britain (Paperback)
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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