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Summary: When Hell Freezes Over
Review: Another Strieber style book to make you feel helpless. In the 80's we were being examined by "blue doctors" and there was nothing we could do about it. And now the masses of drivers in SUV's/Caravans with a child for every seat are sending us us to the next ice age. And the only place to go and survive this catastrophe is Texas. A true living hell on earth...
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Summary: Cheesy
Review: I sped read this 255 page book at an O'Hare newstand in about 20 minutes. I don't disagree with the main tenents that our current lifestyle may be endangering the atmosphere and that we should pay attention to it or live out the consequences. However, the whole playing out of the destruction of NYC (why does NYC always get the brunt of apopalyptic pap from the movies?), Paris eating cats, the British Royal family fleeing to Scotland and 'never being heard from again' and posing Austin, Texas (heaven help us, my pardons to the Texans) as the only place that will be inhabitable is pure cornball. I'm sorry, but who the hell are these people? Some of their theories are a bit unfounded. If, as they say, we are going to be the instrument of our own destruction because of our mass logging, polluting, etc., how then do they explain what happened 10,000 years ago? I don't think the Neanderthals were out driving cars and using hairspray. As for the end of the dinosaurs, as far as I can remember, dinosaurs were not driving cars. The only gas emmisions being produced would have come from dinosaur farting, but that would take a helluva a lot of methane to trigger an ice age, Brontosauruses notwithdstanding! I don't recall the Mayans, Hittites, Sumerians, Egyptians, Babylonians and other ancient civilazations having the technologies to produce gases that would have brought on the flood. I am more inclined to believe the general theory that asteriods from space hitting the earth at these times caused disruption. I don't recall the authors saying much about this. Their celestial expertise is limited to astrology which is fine for diversion but still unproven as a science. What gives? Either I missed a big point during this speed read (I doubt it) or these people are the hysteria stokers of today. Face it people, when our time is up it is up. Stop worrying about what the hell is going to happen tomorrow. Be kind to each other and kind to the earth as much as you can.
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Summary: I EXPECTED MORE....
Review: I am disappointed in The Global Superstorm. It is very hard to follow the story line and while reading it you wonder where Bell and Strieber are coming from. I find it very hard to keep my mind on the book. I love listening to Art Bell on the radio, just wish his book kept the reader as interested.
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Summary: Too Cool For The 'Screw-the-Losers' Set
Review: We've got more high tech research efforts in any single major weapon (and I'll bet that's also true for major video games) than we care to apply to K-12 education. So it is not as if our 'societal' priorities leave us well positioned to being told we are over-consuming. When the party is in full swing, nobody wants to hear that we may well be riding a snowball into hell, or in the case of global warming, riding hell into a snowball. This book has enough drama to be a 'good-read' and just enough scientific explanation to make the drama quite real and unnervingly immediate. I hope the web will provide a more thorough scientific explanation for many of the assertions alluded to, particularly the critters who, 8 thousand years ago, were frozen in their tracks with their bellies full of flowering plants. We need to be willing to ask interesting questions if we are interested in the truth, or in the case of a global superstorm, survival. This book asks all of us a question with a daring, but all too real, proposal. Now it is up to you and me to ask ourselves some life-challenging questions or risk freezing our rear-ends off!
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Summary: A Well-Backed Theory Approached in a Logical Manner
Review: In a consice, organized manner, this book begins to penetrate bodies of evidence which,until now, have been either left unexplained or given ludicrous explanations. Eventually, through a thourough, though not wordy, investigation of every fact or hypothesis mentioned, the authors reach the point central to the book; that a cycle of catastrophic upheavels in the Earth's weathers pattern has caused, and will, perhaps in the near future, cause, a disaster wiping out species and civilizations and possibley initiating a new ice age. It is purely scientific, and will give a good deal of "incidental knowledge" to the reader. Though-provoking without the element of fanatic end-of-the-world doctrine the title might suggest, it is a book you cannot possibley dislike.
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Summary: Don't waste your time or money
Review: I enjoy a good "wacko" theory book as much as the next person, but this book is a travesty. Arguments and assertions are made and never followed up. Veiled hints are made but never proven. Planetary cycles are alluded to but never stated succinctly. The writing is slack and there is no intellectual rigor. Even the layout of the book is a sham -- the already thin text is heavily spaced between lines (leaded, in book trade lingo) to fill up the pages. If you're looking for a good alternative science book that piques the curiosity -- Could this really be true? -- you won't find it here. Whitley Strieber and Art Bell really ought to be ashamed for foisting off such as poor effort as "a book." If you're looking for a fascinating volume on possible climatic change, try "The Change in the Weather" by William K. Stevens.
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Summary: Prophecies are ment to be averted perople! Not proven!
Review: I am an every night Art Bell kinda guy. I too have done my own reaserch way before I even started listening to Art. I and for the most part I think it's safe to say that Art and I have pretty much the same view on most things. Please pick up this book! Read it. And then go out and prove it wrong! Do something to save whats left for our children.
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Summary: Provocative Theory
Review: I found this book to be very interesting, and, yes, frightening when we observe the current marked changes in weather patterns. The data which are presented about changes in the polar ice cap, etc., appear to be scientifically based, and clearly support our need to attend to what could be a problem of tremendous import for human kind. The backgrounds of the authors do detract from the credibility of the message, however. Reading the book does make me want to research this area further so that I may draw my own conclusions. For the most part, it is an interesting and provocative theory which could make sense on some level. I find the reviews of this book interesting in that people either tend to love it or hate it! Those who pan it so thoroughly may understandably be unwilling to accept such an extreme theory due to the fact that it is at odds with their own experience and it is frightening to consider. However, I think the authors make an important point in this regard: we are limited by our own perspective in that human beings have only been on this earth for a very brief time. Why do we think the earth is only about us? It has been here for eons before us, and none of us can know for sure what may or may not have happened before recorded history. I like the hope which the authors hold out that we can use our intelligence to solve what would be the biggest problem we have ever faced, though this certainly poses a tremendous challenge, as peoples of the world must work together in unprecedented ways if we are to succeed in our attempts at survival. We truly are in this together, like it or not, for better or worse!
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Summary: The Coming Global Superstorm
Review: I don't know who Art Bell is. I've never heard his radio show. I've never read anything by Whitley Strieber. Frankly, I'm not inclined to read texts with such blatantly inflammatory titles as this. I looked at this book a number of times before I actually purcahsed it. I'm sure Bell and Strieber knew that by co-authoring a book like this they were further jeopardizing their crediblility in the eyes of some. Thankfully some of us out here are able to realize that important information often comes from unlikely sources. This is important information. By pointing out and linking together certain truths about the current state of weather on earth, Bell and Strieber logically lead us to what could very well be the end of our civilization. We are young, geologically speaking, yet our impact upon the earth has been profound. The authors describe information from many scientific disciplines. On their own, each area of study has affirmed that we are currently ("currently" in this book doesn't mean "recently", but rather, "over the last million years or so") experiencing an increase in violent and unpredicatable weather. Combined together into clever fiction/nonfiction prose, we see that we could be rapidly accelerating the natural course of events on earth by our inability to live in balance with our planet. We will suffer the consequences of our shortsightedness. This book points out what could be, not what has to be. We know about the storms in Europe, we know that Texas is experiencing a devastating drought and that the Northwest coast is, as we speak, being buffeted by 100 mile an hour winds. Daily, the events of this book seem to be coming to life. It is not prophecy, it's probability. Read this if you have ever been engrossed by the weather channel. In fact, read it even if you haven't.
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Summary: WELL RESEARCHED, BACKED BY EVIDENCE
Review: I found that Bell's and Strieber's use of historical eras to show when, where, and how past ice ages and climate shifts have happened supports their hypothesis rather well, especially their use of scientists and meteorlogical data showing how the ice caps have lost nearly 40% of their surface since the 1970's. It clearly shows that this could take form given the right set of conditions at the right time. Only time will tell if the nations of the world will take action against this burgeoning threat to humanity's welfare.
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