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Superstorms
""Superstorms"" examines the science behind extreme weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes, focusing on prediction, intensification, and the impact of climate change. Understanding these increasingly powerful storms is critical for public safety and environmental planning. For instance, rising sea surface temperatures can significantly intensify hurricanes, while shifts in atmospheric patterns may increase tornado frequency. The book explains how forecasting technologies have evolved, from basic observations to sophisticated computer models. It highlights the atmospheric and oceanic conditions that fuel storm power and explores the link between climate change and the increasing severity of these events. ""Superstorms"" presents a logical progression of concepts, beginning with foundational atmospheric science and moving to the specific dynamics of hurricanes and tornadoes. Later chapters delve into prediction methods, climate change impacts, and mitigation strategies, such as improved infrastructure. By integrating scientific analysis with practical guidance, the book provides valuable insights for policymakers, emergency professionals, and anyone interested in understanding and preparing for extreme weather.
Twister Tales
WARNING! Tornado myths are under the microscope! Twister Tales looks at tornado myths and misconceptions and sets the record straight. You’ll find in-depth answers to questions like: Does a green sky mean a tornado is coming? Is outrunning a tornado in a car a bad idea? What does Doppler radar really tell you? Why are some waterspouts very dangerous, and others not so much? Twister Tales also cracks open the record books to examine the 10 deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history. Find out that the question “Who gets the most tornadoes?” doesn’t have an easy answer. “Be Weather Aware” sections help you put together a game plan before storms show up. This book is a must have if you like weather or science!
The Eye Test
In a world increasingly ruled by numbers and algorithms, award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes a compelling case for a more personal approach to analytical thinking. THE EYE TEST is a necessary course correction, a call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem-solving. Award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element—for what smart, practiced, devoted people can bring to situations that have proved resistant to analytics. Jones shares what he’s learned from an army of extraordinary talents, including some of the best doctors, executives, athletes, meteorologists, magicians, designers, astrophysicists, and detectives in the world. There are lessons in their mastery. Of course, there is a place for numbers in decision-making. No baseball player should be judged by his jawline. But the analytics revolution sparked by Michael Lewis’s Moneyball now threatens to replace one kind of absurdity with another. We have developed a blind faith in the machine, the way a driver overly reliant on his GPS might be led off the edge of a cliff. Not all statistical analysis is sound. Algorithms aren’t infallible, and spreadsheets aren’t testaments. Trust in them too much, and they risk becoming instruments of destruction rather than understanding. Worse, data’s supremacy in our daily lives has led to a dangerous strain of anti-expertise: the belief that every problem is a math problem, and anyone given access to the right information will find the right answer. That taste doesn’t matter, experience doesn’t matter, creativity doesn’t matter. That we can’t believe our eyes, no matter how much they’ve seen. THE EYE TEST serves as a reminder that if beauty is less of a virtue in the age of analytics, a good eye still is. This book is a celebration of our greatest beholders—and an absorbing, inspiring guide for how you might become one, too.