About this ebook
This book is full of exciting facts about the weather and climates in different parts of the world, with some incredible examples of weather records and extreme weather events. You will learn how the earth’s climate has changed over millions of years, with ice ages following warm periods. How do we know if the global warming today is natural or man-made?
This book is also about people. You will read about the lives of some great people who observed the weather, recorded it, and learned to predict it. They studied clouds and winds, they invented measuring instruments, they sailed to new unwelcoming lands to build weather stations there, they learned to use mathematics to predict weather. Through the lives of those people, you will follow the path the science called meteorology has made from ancient Mayas’ predictions to modern AI-created forecasts. You will find out how this science not only informs us but also saves lives.
Finally, you will take a look into the future. Will future technology allow people to make perfect forecasts that can never be wrong?
About the author
Alex Semakin is an English teacher and teacher-trainer with almost 30 years of experience and an MA TESOL from the University of Manchester. While continuing to train teachers of English, Alex has recently branched out into materials writing. He has written several coursebooks for Oxford University Press (China). He has also written and edited teacher-training courses for Language Fuel in New Zealand and INTESOL in the UK. Meteorology has been Alex’s hobby since childhood. He began his first weather diary at age seven. His eyes are still fixed on the sky.
