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100 1  Mooney, Chris|q(Chris C.) 
245 10 Storm world :|bhurricanes, politics, and the battle over 
       global warming /|cChris Mooney. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 Orlando :|bHarcourt,|c[2007] 
264  4 |c©2007 
300    392 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Prologue: 6229 Memphis Street -- Introduction: ʺThe Party 
       Lineʺ -- Part I: Warming and Storming -- 1. Chimneys and 
       Whirlpools -- 2. Of Heat Engines -- 3. and Computer Models
       -- 4. ʺLay That Matrix Downʺ -- 5. From Hypercanes to 
       Hurricane Andrew -- Part II: Boiling Over -- Interlude: 
       Among the Forecasters -- 6. The Luck of Florida --   7. 
       Frictional Divergence -- 8. Anger Dissipation -- 9. ʺThe 
       #¿%^& Hit the Fanʺ -- 10. Resistance -- 11. ʺConsensusʺ --
       Part III: Storm World -- 12. Pre-Season Warm-Ups -- 13. 
       Where Are the Storms? --           14. Hurricane 
       Climatology -- Conclusion: Home Again -- Acknowledgments -
       - Appendix I: The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale -- 
       Appendix II: Cyclone Typology -- Appendix III: Early 
       Hurricane-Climate Speculations -- Appendix IV: Consensus 
       Statements by Participants in World Meteorological 
       Organizationʼs 6ht International Workshop on Tropical 
       Cyclones, San Jose, Costa Rica, November 2006 -- 
       Bibliography/Recommended Reading -- List of Interviews. 
520    One of the leading science journalists and commentators 
       working today, Chris Mooney delves into a red-hot debate 
       in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of 
       hurricanes is connected to global warming. In the wake of 
       Katrina, Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists 
       on either side of the argument through the 2006 hurricane 
       season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics,
       and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was 
       already a fraught scientific debate. As Mooney puts it: 
       ʺScientists, like hurricanes, do extraordinary things at 
       high wind speeds.ʺ Mooney - a native of New Orleans - has 
       written a fascinating and urgently compelling book that 
       calls into question the great inconvenient truth of our 
       day: Are we responsible for making hurricanes even bigger 
       monsters than they already are? Also includes information 
       on Hurricane Andres, Australia, blogs, George W. Bush, 
       carbon dioxide, Tropical Cyclone Catarina, Hurricane 
       Charley, Jule Gregory Charney, Judith Curry, cyclones, El 
       Nino, Kerry Emanuel, ExxonMobil, global climate models 
       (GCMs), Al Gore, William Gray, Greg Holland, Hurricane 
       Ivan, Japan, Hurricane Katrina, Thomas Knutson, Chris 
       Landsea, latent heat, theories of maximum potential 
       intensity, maximum sustained wind speeds, National 
       Hurricane Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
       Administration (NOAA), oil and gas industry, William 
       Redfield, Herbert Riehl, Hurricane Rita, typhoons, water 
       vapor, weather forecasting, Peter Webster, Tropical Storm 
       Zeta, etc. 
650  0 Hurricanes. 
650  0 Hurricanes|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Global warming|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Climatology. 
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