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Climate and Weather

Monograph Out of Print
Series: New Naturalist Series Volume: 115
By: John Kington(Author)
484 pages, 104 colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations
Publisher: HarperCollins
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  • Climate and Weather ISBN: 9780007185023 Paperback Sep 2010 Out of Print #152945
  • Climate and Weather ISBN: 9780007185016 Hardback Sep 2010 Out of Print #152944
  • Climate and Weather ISBN: 9780008228767 Hardback facsimile Nov 2016 Out of Print #234109
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Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations. This edition is produced from an original copy by William Collins.

Much has happened in our knowledge of climate and weather over the past fifty years. The recording of relations between weather and natural history has continued to be of constant interest, with the weather providing a continual and essential backdrop to natural history accounts. But the significance of this backdrop has been very much widened by our better understanding of climate change and its effects on flora, fauna and biodiversity and also by our increased knowledge of historical climates and weather events.

In this timely addition to the New Naturalist Library, leading climatologist John Kington offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the diverse climate of the British Isles. Examining the ways in which regional climates evolve from the interplay of meteorological conditions and geography of the British Isles, the author analyses the climatic characteristics and provides a historical overview of changing weather patterns, which is complemented by fascinating and never-before published photographs.

Kington reviews the many ways in which people have observed and recorded weather conditions throughout the ages. It is a story based on a rich and varied resource stretching back 2000 years. This approach has allowed climatic trends, anomalies and extremes to be identified over the past two millennia, putting our present experience of weather into striking perspective.

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Monograph Out of Print
Series: New Naturalist Series Volume: 115
By: John Kington(Author)
484 pages, 104 colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Disappointing weather
by Stephen Mott in United Kingdom
"Climate and Weather - I looked up various years from my childhood and reminisced. But... is this what the NN series is supposed to be about? I am slightly disappointed with Climate and Weather. I had hoped for more in-depth analysis of what happens season to season and looking at trends. It is summarised far too much, I think. It would have been useful to have some sectional diagrams through a cold front, warm front and especially a back-bent occlusion. What does that look like in a section? How do the air masses relate spatially? While it is fascinating to see synoptic charts of the weather the Spanish Armada faced, why is the most recent 20th Century synoptic chart used that of January 1953? What about June 1976 – the year of the long drought, or October 1987, the year of the worst gales? I do not think the choice of photographs is terribly illuminating: could someone please tell me what the two very similar photos of Putney Heath in 1895 (figs. 90 and 91, page 383) are meant to show. Surely just one of them would be sufficient?

Chapter 9 and the whole of Part 2 could have been conflated and reduced and allowed space for looking in greater detail at human impact on the climate and weather. These reads like a compilation of somebody's weather notes and as such it is repetitive and somewhat dull. The Editors' preface remarks that "..reflects circumstances that will have affected our fauna and flora in times past". What would be nice to know is how these climatic and weather circumstances affected our flora and fauna and what the current trends in our climate might imply for our natural history. An opportunity missed. I don't have access to the learned journals which might contain this stuff, (I'm a geologist by training) so a digest of it would have been welcome. Sadly, the book comes over as a rather hurried compilation of detail. I suppose that is a useful thing to have, but has the book done enough to "present results of modern scientific research"? (Collins NN aim for the series.) I leave it to others to put a differing view forward on that and the other points I have raised.

This is not the best New Naturalist to have been published; it compares very poorly with such as Bird Migration and it comes no where near the quality of the much earlier volume by Gordon Manley Climate and the British Scene. A very disappointing book in many ways."

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