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Weather's greatest mysteries solved! /

Uses climatological evidence to answers questions ranging from what caused the Dust Bowl and why did Mayan civilization vanished.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cerveny, Randall S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Climatic extremes > History.
Climatology > Miscellanea.
Table of Contents:
  • What is a weather mystery?
  • The mystery of the dead T. Rex
  • The mystery of humanity's "near extinction"
  • The mystery of the Saharan hippos
  • The mystery of the vanishing harappans
  • The mystery of the Exodus
  • The mysteries of weather and climate in ancient Greece
  • The mystery of Petra, the rose city
  • The mystery of the disappearing sun
  • The mystery of the Mayan megadrought
  • The mystery of Columbus's missing hurricane
  • The mystery of the Little Ice Age's lost sunspots
  • The mystery of the complacent Empire's wet weather
  • The mystery of the Pacific hot tub
  • The mystery of Tibet's weather spies
  • The mystery of the Great American Dust Bowl
  • The mystery of the crashing airplane and the A-bomb
  • The mystery of "eliminating the impossible"
  • The mystery of the devil in the deep blue sea
  • The mystery of climate, cocaine, and the storyteller
  • The mystery of the future
  • The seven solutions.