In The Dance of Air and Sea: How oceans, weather and life link together, Arnold Taylor explores these complex but vital links
OCEAN currents move water about the Earth on a scale that defeats human imagination – who can picture a flow equivalent to 800 Amazons? – yet you can read their shifting paths in the life of a daisy growing by a road. It’s like astrology, only scientific.
The central puzzle of oceanographer Arnold Taylor’s book is how variation in the Gulf Stream, the current that flows from the Caribbean to north-west Europe, affects things living far from it. In particular,…
