Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth

Rating:
Summary: A good beginning
Review: I enjoyed the first half of the book, that dealing with the subject of weather and climate and with the development of a discipline of weather/climate study. That the chaos of weather leads to an orderly precession of climate through time was an interesting concept. The necessity of the rise and application of computers to the problem of weather and climate prediction was something that had not really occured to me. Certainly the number crunching capabilities of these modern engineering miracles that go into the science was impressive. The book is definitely outdated with respect to politics and predictions, however. Still a valuable book from a historical point of view and worth reading as a good beginning to understanding weather and climate.

Rating:
Summary: A good beginning
Review: I enjoyed the first half of the book, that dealing with the subject of weather and climate and with the development of a discipline of weather/climate study. That the chaos of weather leads to an orderly precession of climate through time was an interesting concept. The necessity of the rise and application of computers to the problem of weather and climate prediction was something that had not really occured to me. Certainly the number crunching capabilities of these modern engineering miracles that go into the science was impressive. The book is definitely outdated with respect to politics and predictions, however. Still a valuable book from a historical point of view and worth reading as a good beginning to understanding weather and climate.