地球寒冷化と成長の限界（英語、ApproachingCrisisofGlobalCooling.docVIP

Approaching Crisis of Global Cooling and the Limits to Growth（地球寒冷化と成長の限界） 丸山茂徳著、吉田勝?V. Spencer　翻訳の出版． Xlibris Co., Bloomington, USAとフィールドサイエンス出版（橋本市）により、2012年12月に発行、発売が開始された。本書の紹介を以下に収録した。日本での本書の販売はAmazonなど一般書店で行っている。また、ゴンドワナ地質環境研究所でも販売しており、E-mail: gondwana @oregano.ocn.ne.jpに申し込めば購入できる。本書の詳しい内容はXlibrisによる以下のリンクでご参照を。 /Products/SKU-0112547050/default.aspx ******************************************************* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global Cooling Poses Bigger Threat than Global Warming, Author Says In this timely publication, award-winning geologist Shigenori Maruyama reveals that according to palaeoclimatic data, the next glacial age may start anytime TOKYO, Japan – Author Shigenori Maruyama, in his newly published book Approaching Crisis of Global Cooling and the Limits to Growth, stresses that the atmospheric temperature will become cold instead of warm in the near future, unlike what most academic societies and governments force citizens to believe. This book, translated by Prof. Masaru Yoshida and Vernon Spencer to English from the original Japanese version, was written by the author out of his belief of social responsibility as the scientist. “The current trend in the world is to blame carbon dioxide for global warming and does not allow questioning such a conclusion or giving contrary opinions,” Maruyama shares. “I have found it very dangerous that the world is forced to dance to such a small theme, in spite of the existence of more serious problems that we have to struggle with spending time and money collaborating together.” According to the author, the atmospheric temperature of the earth will surely become cold, because most of major controlling factors of the atmospheric temperature, i.e., solar activity, cosmic rays, and geomagnetism are changing in a way to the cooling. He says that the effect of carbon dioxide gas should not be too much evaluated. Maruyama states that by basing on the past global climatic change, one can