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The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm
Author: Art Bell, Whitley Strieber
The dawn of the twenty-first century saw some of the most violent weather on record. Scientific evidence suggests this trend marks the beginning of a climatological nightmare: a massive and unprecedented storm of unimaginable destructive force. — WHAT WILL TRIGGER IT? Global warming is about to cause the North Atlantic Current to drop to ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743470650
ISBN-10: 0743470656
Publication Date: 4/27/2004
Pages: 320
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2.9 stars, based on 19 ratings
Publisher: Pocket Star
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 2
Interesting, worth reading to add to one's knowledge of global warming.
maddoc avatar reviewed The Coming Global Superstorm on + 2 more book reviews
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Couldn't be a more timely and imperative book.

Have enjoyed both of the authors work, and loved it when Art was still on Coast to Coast AM
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Helpful Score: 1
The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" was based on this book. Even though the movie was a little too preachy for my taste, I still enjoyed it. As for the book, I couldn't even finish it.
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prairiewind avatar reviewed The Coming Global Superstorm on + 48 more book reviews
Part fiction and part fact, literally. A fictional account of our future is interspersed chapter by chapter among current and historical events. An amusing read, but please keep your common sense handy as this book is a bit sensationalist. The fiction thread ought to be (a little too) familiar if you've seen "The Day After Tomorrow".
How-toCollector avatar reviewed The Coming Global Superstorm on + 72 more book reviews
This book was co-authored by Art Bell. It was the original book to inspire the movie "The Day After Tommorrow". It talks about the conditions that exist right now that can cause sudden and dramatic climate change. It goes into speculative history about past ice ages, floods and into possible causes for lasting change in the weather and environmental "status quo" on a global scale. Reads more like a novel in some places. Afterall Whitley is a fiction writer.
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Very interesting book
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The book definitely made me think.
butterfleye919 avatar reviewed The Coming Global Superstorm on + 2 more book reviews
Expecting to read more of the "same-old" doomsday speculation rampant on Art Bell's radio show, this book suprised me with both its message and its scope. With the exception of some of the initial chapters, which provide an overview of recent theories regarding the age of mankind, the entire book was new material for me. It was the first time I'd heard of a "superstorm", how one would form, and the effects such a storm would have. The prospect is terrifying.
The book is so well-written, however, that I felt the book's message was a call to action rather than an simply a disruptive alarm. The authors cleverly intersperse realistic-yet-fictional scenes of the onset of such a storm between the factual, sometimes dry prose. The result is a book that is extremely informative and a pleasure to read (similar to "The Hot Zone").

Grounded in science and only minimally speculative(the authors state very clearly where they do so), this book is well worth reading and contemplating. I hope the book finds its way into academia soon.


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