Kip Hansen’s Book Review — January 27, 2023
Hypothermia kills! It kills old people, it kills babies and children, it kills strong young athletes, it kills ordinary people in their daily lives. Hypothermia kills more men than women. Like most people, you can relate Hypothermia — body temperature drops to dangerous levels — with very cold weather, temperatures below freezing. However, “Hypothermia has two main types of causes. It usually occurs when exposed to cold weather and cold water immersion. It can also occur due to any condition that reduces heat production or increases heat loss.” [ source ]
Hikers and campers die from hypothermia, skiers die from hypothermia, surfers sometimes die from hypothermia. Many sailors got wet, exposed to the wind and suffered from hypothermia – as Captain, I had to send healthy young men below to warm them up when I found them too cold and disturbed. hypothermia on deck. .
During the 2013 Boston Marathon, which was halted by a terrible terrorist attack near the finish line, hypothermia became the second disaster on top of the first. After the athletes were forced to stop running, a witness reports that thousands of athletes began to develop hypothermia and needed treatment or evacuation. The temperature is 52 degrees. Only Moderately cold.
Why is all this talking about hypothermia?
Daniel Church’s New Novel, Winter Gamesopens with a scene at the beach, surfing on big waves, dangerous enough in the best of times, but can be deadly for those who stay out too long and get cold from exhaustion, cold water and the sea breeze blows.
This is a story that will grab you from that first page and keep you reading until the last of its 250 pages.
In this book, we follow Whit, a glaciologist who studies volcanic summit glaciers and who suffered from the loss of a colleague to hypothermia – and blames ourselves.
This is a fictionalized version of the social/political/scientific battle raging around the world dealing with Climate Science and the disconnect between real scientific facts about Earth’s climate and Earth’s climate. distorted versions and facts that most of the world’s population is exposed to on a daily basis.
A group of frustrated dedicated scientists who see their field taken over and used by politicians and propagandists for the benefit of a few who want to restructure the world economy. world for their own benefit, have made a private and dangerous pact to fight back. It’s been an uphill battle against a social/political force that controls nearly every news agency and literally controls the nightly news.
The method they choose to use in this battle will leave you mesmerized and terrified. But it will also keep you reading until bedtime and leave you happy at the end.
This is the best sci-fi story. (and like all science fiction, the mind must be relaxed a little, suspending skepticism for a moment).
Key point:
Absolutely amazing story
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