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Summary: Just Another Might Happen Sometime Doomsday
Review: This is a book about 'the most incandescent moment in the history of the species'. Incandescent? Important, maybe, critical perhaps; but "incandescent"? Even if it were, how does that relate to this 'coming global superstorm'?This very tabloid style, minimal facts, lacking clear causal linkage, is really what this book is about. It shows the characteristic absence of real substance of Mr. Streiber's other books. Some of the evidence the authors refer to is discussed in much greater detail in the infinitely better 'Cataclysm' by D.S. Allan and J.B.Delair, which does show the linkage between geological effect and ancient myth. But for any kind of proof you need to establish that fact A is reliable, then fact B, that they are related to each other, and then you can infer something else - which is still hypothetical until verified. The authors don't even establish basic facts, and their hypothesis doesn't make any real or verifiable predictions. Global warming may be a secondary effect, but that doesn't stop Bell or Streiber. Mr. Bell's regular contributor, Linda Moulton Howe, stated on one of his shows that the plant life of North America is soaking up all the greenhouse gas emissions of human activity in North America, but that doesn't deter our authors. It's a fun theory, all the better for lacking any kind of timeline: Nostradamus went and put a date down, a mistake Bell and Streiber are not going to repeat. So stock up on the dried foods, short-wave radios and gold that Mr. Bell promotes on his show. You didn't need them for Nostradamus' eclipse, you won't need them for Y2K, but there's always a chance you might need them - sometime in the next ten thousand years.
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Summary: Fact or Fiction This is One Great Read
Review: This book at its least serves as wake up call to pay attention to the enviromental changes happening around us. While the author's never pretend that their hypothesis of a coming global catastrophy is absolute fact, they offer compelling reasons to believe that a sudden global climate change is a possibility. The book is a well written,easy and exciting read. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Paranoia cubed
Review: Here we go again: Art being a prophet of doom and gloom. This is no science, excellent thriller though.
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Summary: A Really Thought-Provoking Book
Review: This book describes what will happen if the North Atlantic Current should suddenly shift into the central Atlantic due to the North Atlantic getting too warm. The authors are not scientists, and they make it clear that their ideas are speculative. They tell their story really well. I read it at one sitting, which I never do. They make what I think are some important points that nobody else has made. First, global warming is part of a natural cycle. Second, we are speeding up this cycle, not creating it. Third, the climate works like a slowly stretching rubber band. It changes by degrees and then suddenly--bang. We need to be worrying about this bang, because a lot of lives are at stake. They make some useful suggestions about how to plan for this. I am not given to praise and this is the only book review I have ever done. But this book is very important and very well written. It is an absolute must.
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Summary: Fascinating Read
Review: I have just finished this book and I am sitting here stunned. The authors have written one of the most important books to come along in many years. Not only that, it's riveting. You cannot put it down. They tell a frightening story, but they are so fair about it that you never feel that they are sensationalizing it in any way. I had one of those blinding 'of course' moments toward the end. Sudden climate change is part of the way our plant's climate works. They cite among their sources some of the best climatologists in the world for this conclusion. And when it comes, OF COURSE it will be violent. That's what sudden change is all about. But we just don't dare face it. They face it and they hold your hand. You come away realizing that we CAN prepare intelligently and even control the speed of the change, and it isn't going to wreck the business community or cheat the third world of its right to continue to develop. We have to plan and we have to take personal responsibility. We have to depoliticize the whole issue and start being rational about it. This book is so important. It is an absolute must for anybody who cares about their world or their children or their own lives.
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Summary: Boy, this book blows. From an Art Bell Fan.
Review: I am an avid listener of the Art Bell Program and was looking forward to reading it. BOY WAS I DISSAPOINTED! The writing is dry and sophmoric and lacks any originality or freshness. The plot is so unbelievable and unrealistic (regardless of Art's on air plugging) that you will quickly lose interest and pray for the ending to come. I read the book cover to cover hoping for it to get better but it never did. As a fan of the show I was sorley disappointed by this book. From all the on air plugging I thougt it would be a great read, but it wasn't. I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
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Summary: Intriguing Speculation on Imminent Weather Catastrophe
Review: "The Coming Global Superstorm" rates five stars if for no other reason than it is a very thought-provoking book that will be sure to make the reader think about the implications of human induced climate change. Authors Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, better known as paranormal experts than climate change experts, have written a wildly speculative book that blends meteorolgical fact (the world is warmer than it used to be), with dire warning of imminent catastrophe (the northern hemisphere will experience a "superstorm" that will lead to a new ice age in our lifetime). The basic premise is that global warming adds so much energy to weather systems that eventually a superstorm will snow so much over the entire northern hemisphere, that it will actually "tip" the planet into an ice age that could last hundreds to thousands of years. The authors hypothesize that ice ages do not begin gradually, but instead the onset of an ice age occurs quite rapidly, within a week of previously warm climate conditions. One of their key pieces of evidence is that the remains of wooly mammoths have been found frozen with plants in their stomach that could only grow in warm climates, and yet the frozen remains of the mammoth were discovered in areas that became glaciated during the last ice age. Their implication is: one day the climate was warm, the next day it was an ice age. One of the other key points that seem to lend scientific credibility to their somewhat implausible scenario is a detailed description of how the warming of arctic waters will prevent the warmer north-flowing gulf stream waters from the tropics from mixing with the colder arctic waters. This results in a large mass of relatively cold water sitting off of northeastern U.S. and Canada, and it is this mass of cold water (no longer warmed by the gulf stream) that is the genesis of the "superstorm". Implausible? Absolutely. Ridiculous? Of course. A fascinating book? Yes, without a doubt.
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Summary: Got to be kidding!
Review: Whitley Strieber??? Come on, abductions, implants, etc., this guy is a total JOKE! Now he is an expert on Global Warming? Holy Cow, the only one who is a bigger joke of a jackass is Al Gore, promoting this stupid book (and now an even dumber movie) as scientific fact.
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Summary: Motley Fools
Review: After reading the book, checking sources, seeing the film more than once I have to say to all those who mock and laugh at the premise of the book that this is not a work of fiction, but, a record of Earth's geological past and what is to come. There have been many, many ice ages in earth's history most lasting for between 100,000 to 200,000 years, so, to those who laugh, do so at your own peril.
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Summary: Y2K??
Review: I haven't read the book, but another reviewer wrote something funny. He refered to Y2k and how people were worried about the end of the world then, and they were obviously wrong. (basically, making his point that the Superstorm idea is just as silly). Well, to that I would only say that Y2k could have easily caused major problems around the world if not for the hundreds of thousands of programmers working for years to solve the problem. So the only reason Y2K didn't "end the world" is because we worked to prevent it!! The same COULD be true for global warming if we don't prevent it. Many socially irresponsible people need a 6000 lb SUV to drive themselves to work. I guess they don't mind taking their chances that all the "left-wing idiots" are wrong. Personally, I wouldn't risk it.
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