Being an Art Bell fan, I had heard about this book for some time. When it first came out, I browsed though my local Hastings Book store, only to find that the book was about $20.00. I just couldn't see spending that kind of money.
Last week, I was browsing again at another book store for a different book. I came across the Coming Global Superstorm for $4.99. I decided to get it.
It's a fairly quick read but I set the book down with mixed emotions. I had heard of most of Art and Whitley's opinions from listening to the Art Bell Show. They do quote from a book that is very informative and interesting..Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock.(Now THERE'S a good read!) It seems they took what he has said about polar shifts and ancient lost knowledge and crammed these ideas into one idea of a giant storm that the globe may be facing in the near future.
The book touches base with some archeological evidences that have recently come up. The pyramids and roads found off the coast of Japan for instance. The book almost reads like an update to other, more informative and enlightening books on the subjects of global warming, ice ages, and human history.
At the beginning of most of the chapters, the reader is put into a fictitious scenario where we are thrown into the big storm from the beginning. Weather service people are at first at a loss to explain why a bouy in the Atlantic is reading incorrectly and chalk it up as a misreading. Then, the floods, blizzards and winds begin to work their way south around the globe.
Finally one billion people are dead from the powerful world-wide tempest. The lands of the earth are covered in either ice or water. City dwelling survivors become a part of various tribes.
In a nutshell, global warming leads to glacier melting, rising the oceans,colliding with warm air, bringing the snow; the snow reflects into the atmosphere bringing the coldest and windiest and most violent storm since antiquity.
The book has some very good points to make regarding the very real possibility of a global disaster. After all, science and archeology have proven that the earth has gone through such catastrophes before. The case of finding mammoths frozen, with green grass still in their mouths, does make sense when one thinks of something VERY cold and fierce taking over a serene and springlike environment.
I would have liked to see more information and details on the planet's past demises. Still, the book does make you think....
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