- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; New edition edition (22 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019280572X
- ISBN-13: 978-0192805720
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
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Surviving Armageddon is a somewhat boisterous romp. Read. And then have a strong drink. (Sir Crispin Tickell )
'a book that should be read by anyone who is concerned about the future of the world in which we all live' (Sir Patrick Moore, Times Higher Education Supplement ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'a book that should be read by anyone who is concerned about the future of the world in which we all live' (Sir Patrick Moore, Times Higher Education Supplement ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
BBC Focus, September 2005
His book is certainly entertaining.
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On a glorious late spring morning in 1994, over a hundred geologists and volcanologists congregated in the august apartments of the Geological Society in Piccadilly's Burlington House, to discuss how and why volcanoes collapse: a catastrophic phenomenon most famously broadcast around the world during the climactic eruption of Mount St Helens in May 1980. Read the first page
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On a glorious late spring morning in 1994, over a hundred geologists and volcanologists congregated in the august apartments of the Geological Society in Piccadilly's Burlington House, to discuss how and why volcanoes collapse: a catastrophic phenomenon most famously broadcast around the world during the climactic eruption of Mount St Helens in May 1980. Read the first page
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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.
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.
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