Global Geophysical Events or Gee-Gees are catastrophes large enough to kill millions of humans and even to threaten our very survival.
Included are earthquakes, volcano super-eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid/comet impact, and global warming.
Bill McGuire explains why each of these can justifiably be called a global threat. Then he discusses what, if anything, can be done to minimise the damage caused.
Right now, for example, a tsunami is waiting to be triggered that would kill half a billion people and wipe out all cities on the coasts of the North Atlantic. It could happen tomorrow, it could happen in ten millenia. And we can't do a thing about it.
In spite of his fast-paced punchy style, McGuire is not a journalist, but a leading geophysical scientist. The text is readable and, more important, it's quotable too! This book will arm you with the facts and reasoning needed to win any after-dinner skeptics' debate.
McGuire, like most earth scientists, is passionately trying to warn the world to reverse global warming. I'm with him there, but he lost some of my sympathy when he represented cold fusion and other woo-woo "inventions" as being genuine but unlucky, instead of the intellectual shams they really are.
This book will stay close to my desk so that I can refer to it often.
