Planets, p. 200.
“The Moon is slipping from our grasp . . .” Ward and Browniee, Rare Earth, p. 33.
“The most elusive element of all . . .” Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom, p. 28.
“discarded the state silver dinner service . . .” Bodanis, The Secret House, p. 13.
“a very modest 0.048 percent . . .” Krebs, p. 148.
“If it wasn’t for carbon . . .” Davies, p. 126.
“Of every 200 atoms in your body . . .” Snyder, The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things, p. 24.
“The degree to which organisms require . . .” Parker, Inscrutable Earth, p. 100.
“Drop a small lump of pure sodium . . .” Snyder, p. 42.
“The Romans also flavored their wine with lead . . .” Parker, p. 103.
“The physicist Richard Feynman . . .” Feynman, p. xix.
CHAPTER 17 INTO THE TROPOSPHERE
“Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice.” Stevens, p. 7.
“and was discovered in 1902 by a Frenchman in a balloon . . .” Stevens, p. 56; and Nature, “1902 and All That,” January 3, 2002, p. 15.
“from the same Greek root as menopause.” Smith, p. 52.
“severe cerebral and pulmonary edemas . . .” Ashcroft, p. 7.
“The temperature six miles up . . .” Smith, p. 25.
“about three-millionths of an inch . . .” Allen, Atmosphere, p. 58.
“it could well bounce back into space . . .” Allen, p. 57.
“Howard Somervell ‘found himself choking to death’ . . .” Dickinson, The Other Side of Everest, p. 86.
“The absolute limit of human tolerance . . .” Ashcroft, p. 8.
“even the most well-adapted women . . .” Attenborough, The Living Planet, p. 18.
“nearly half a ton has been quietly piled upon us . . .” Quoted by Hamilton- Paterson, p. 177.
“a typical weather front . . .” Smith, p. 50.
“equivalent to four days’ use of electricity . . .” Junger, The Perfect Storm, p. 128.
“At any one moment 1,800 thunderstorms . . .” Stevens, p. 55.
“Much of our knowledge . . .” Biddle, p. 161.
“a wind blowing at two hundred miles an hour . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 68.
“as much energy ‘as a medium-size nation.’ ” Ball, p. 51.
“The impulse of the atmosphere to seek equilibrium . . .” Science, “The Ascent of Atmospheric Sciences,” October 13, 2000, p. 300.
“Coriolis’s other distinction . . .” Trefil, The Unexpected Vista, p. 24.
“gives weather systems their curl . . .” Drury, p. 25.
“Celsius made boiling point zero . . .” Trefil, The Unexpected Vista, p. 107.
“Howard is chiefly remembered . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 10, pp. 51-52.
“Howard’s system has been much added to . . .” Trefil, Meditations at Sunset, p. 62.
“the source of the expression ‘to be on cloud nine.’ ” Hamblyn, p. 252.
“A fluffy summer cumulus . . .” Trefil, Meditations at Sunset, p. 66.
“Only about 0.035 percent of the Earth’s fresh water . . .” Ball, p. 57.
