The Coming Global Superstorm

by Art Bell (Author), Whitley Strieber (Author)

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Killer tornadoes. Violent tropical storms. Devastating temperatures. Are these just the prelude to an unprecedented environmental disaster in our near future' Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena -- Art Bell, the top-rated late-night radio talk-show host, and Whitley Strieber, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Communion and the legendary Nature's End -- have made a shocking discovery based on years of research with top scientists and archaeologists from show more around the world. Now, they reveal what powerful interests are trying to keep hidden: rapid changes in the atmosphere caused by greenhouse gases have set humanity on an incredibly dangerous course toward a catastrophic change in climate in the immediate future. It will begin with a massive, unprecedented storm that will devastate the Northern Hemisphere. This will be followed by floods unlike anything ever seen before -- or perhaps a new Ice Age. They also unearth evidence that this has happened in the past -- in fact, that it has occurred regularly throughout geologic history, but so infrequently that our only record of the last such storm is contained in ancient myths and flood legends. From El NiNo to the African droughts, to the shrinking of the polar ice caps, Bell and Strieber identify the warning signs to those willing to see. They point out that the Earth's regulatory system is like a rubber band: you can stretch it just so far before it snaps back -- with a vengeance. Since 1995, each successive year has set new records for violent weather. In 1999 a major climatological study predicted that the Earth will soon be warmer than it has been in millions of years. Bell and Strieber tell us why they believe a rebound is imminent -- a rapid and violent cooling that will cover the Northern Hemisphere in a sheath of choking ice and snow. But it's not too late to reverse our destiny. No mere harbinger of an inevitable doomsday, The Coming Global Superstorm is instead a spirited call to action that offers a wealth of viable solutions to this mammoth challenge to humankind. Through a careful and impressively researched dissection of the myths and legends of ancient cultures and an insightful examination of the best of modern environmental science, Bell and Strieber guide us on an intellectual journey as dark as the murky origins of man and as bright as the promise of an interstellar future. show less

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Arthur William Bell III was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina on June 17, 1945. At the age of 13, he became a licensed amateur radio operator. He was an Air Force medic during the Vietnam War and later a disc jockey for an English-language station in Okinawa. He enrolled as an engineering major at the University of Maryland but dropped out to show more return to radio. His Coast to Coast show was syndicated and broadcast from 1989 to 2003. It was followed by a program called Midnight in the Desert, which ended in 2015. He received the Snuffed Candle Award from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 1998. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2008. He wrote several books including The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World and The Art of Talk. He and Whitley Strieber wrote The Coming Global Superstorm, which was adapted into the movie The Day After Tomorrow starring Dennis Quaid. Bell died on April 13, 2018 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Whitley Strieber was born on June 13, 1945 in San Antonio, Texas. He received a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1968 and a certificate from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before becoming an author, he worked at an advertising agency from 1970 to 1977, going from account supervisor to vice president. He is the author of show more several novels including The Wolfen, The Hunger, Superstorm, The Last Vampire, Lilith's Dream, 2012: The War for Souls, The Omega Point, Critical Mass, Melody Burning, and the Alien Hunter series. In 1987, he published Communion: A True Story, which described his personal encounters with extraterrestrials. His other non-fiction works include Transformation, Breakthrough: The Next Step, The Secret School, Solving the Communion Enigma: What Is to Come, and Miraculous Journey. He founded the Communion Foundation in 1989 to assist in establishing a productive relationship with alien beings. He is the host of the paranormal and fringe science-themed internet podcast, Dreamland, available on a weekly basis from his website, Unknown Country. (Bowker Author Biography) Whitley Strieber, the co-author of the recent "New York Times" "Coming Global Superstorm", is the author of two classic pieces of American horror fiction: "The Hunger" & "The Wolfen". He is also widely known for his multi-million-copy best-selling account of his own close encounter, "Communion: A True Story". He is engaged in the most advanced research being conducted into the physical evidence of close encounters, & the supernatural in general, today. (Publisher Provided) show less

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Canonical title
The Coming Global Superstorm
Original title
The Coming Global Superstorm
Alternate titles
Coming Global Superstorm; Sturmwarnung
Original publication date
1999-12-01
Related movies
The Day After Tomorrow (2004 | IMDb)

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DDC/MDS
551.6Natural sciences & mathematicsEarth sciences; geologyGeology, Hydrology MeteorologyClimate & Weather
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QC981.8 .C5 .B452SciencePhysicsPhysicsMeteorology. ClimatologyClimatology and weather
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