Solar Cataclysm: How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

Solar Cataclysm: How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

by Lawrence E Joseph
Solar Cataclysm: How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

Solar Cataclysm: How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

by Lawrence E Joseph

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Overview

Science journalist and futurist Lawrence Joseph has studied the unprecedented solar storms since the last ice age and in Solar Cataclysm he reveals the monumental ecological, biological, emotional, political, financial, and cultural effects they have had in the past, and will ultimately have on humanity’s future. This timely, fascinating, and relevant book from the bestselling author of Apocalypse 2012 sounds an intelligent and urgent warning about the possible catastrophic consequences we will face in the coming years if we don’t listen to what the sun is trying to tell us. Popular science fans who made The World Without Us a runaway bestseller, readers open to new angles on history like those presented in Guns, Germs, and Steel, and anyone who is concerned about tomorrow and what we can do to ensure humankind’s survival must read Solar Cataclysm.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062061935
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 09/25/2012
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 595 KB

About the Author

LAWRENCE E. JOSEPH is a futurist and the author of several books, including Apocalypse 2012. For decades, Joseph has written on science, nature, politics, and business for publications including the New York Times, Discover, and Salon. He currently blogs for The Huffington Post. In demand as a speaker, Joseph has given more than five hundred film, television, radio, and print interviews on the subject of solar EMP and other Sun–Earth phenomena.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Special Note: The Moody Sun Hypothesis 11

Past 27

1 Sol Has Loved Gaia for Almost Five Billion Years 29

2 Sunspots Melted the Last Ice Age 39

3 The Long, Painful History of Sunspot Denial 47

4 From the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age 59

5 When the Sun Fell Asleep 79

Present 87

6 Sunspots Are Making the World Warmer 89

7 The Global Cooling Scandal 115

8 Twenty-First-Century Sun Worship 129

9 The Sun Also Heals You 145

10 Sunspots and Your Brain 163

Future 177

11 The Sun Will Soon Short Out the Electrical Power Grid 179

12 A Simple Way to Protect Our Future 189

13 A Hundred Nuclear Meltdowns Coming Our Way 213

14 The Sun Will Send Us Secret Warnings 219

15 Three Looming Threats and One Happy Ending 225

Conclusion 245

Notes 259

Suggested Reading 267

Acknowledgments 269

Index 271

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