The Field Guide to Natural Phenomena: The Secret World of Optical, Atmospheric and Celestial Wonders [Paperback]

This book gives the reader the how and why behind everyday and not so common natural occurrences around is such as wind, storms and the oceans. You may know half the story but The Field Guide to Natural Phenomena provides you with the details. I found this book not only highly informative but entertaining to read as well and done so in a concise manner. With this book at hand, the next time someone asks, "I wonder why there is a halo around the sun today?" you'll be able to tell them that it is the result of ice crystals high in the atmosphere refracting the sun's light at 22 degrees.

Anyone with children or anyone who is simply interested in natural science will enjoy The Field Guide to Natural Phenomena.

This book is interesting. Some weird stuff shows up in our skies now and then - I liked learning about the Green flash on the horizon at the last moment of sunset. I'd like to see that one day.

The thing that bothered me is that the book serves to misinform (and I suspect actually DISinform) the casual reader about
the phenomena of aerosol particulate matter sprayed deliberately in the atmosphere by unmarked white planes. This phenomena has been on going since 1999 and is known as a 'chemtrail'.
The very first image of the book shows a thoroughly sprayed sky full of straight white particulate trails with a farm scene at sunrise. The image is described thus: "a rural scene at sunrise is captured beautifully as the sun's rays break through early morning mist". - The glaringly unnatural chemtrails (the most curious part of the picture) are not even mentioned. This is what I call lying by omission. Ah, but I correct myself - the book is called 'the Field Guide to NATURAL Wonders', so it's actually being honest by not addressing the very definitely man-made chemtrails. But in the next sentence it calls attention to the oil slick rainbow effect that is caused by chemical spraying and uses a term 'Irisation' to describe it: Irisation is visible in the clouds on the left side of the photograph. The problem is - the iridescent quality is NOT NATURAL. It is the result of the light refracting qualities of the aerosol particulate material hanging suspended in the sky. These look totally unlike the natural iridescent colours of water droplets, which display ALL colours of the rainbow, unlike the chembow iridescence which tends to display mostly green, yellow or orange.

When I looked to the page defining clouds, further mis/disinformation was evident. The author describes as clouds, phenomena which is actually chemtrails: 'individual clouds elements have very ill-defined edges (I'll consult with older texts to see if that is true of Stratus clouds, because it is true of chemtrail banks). Altostatus may have a bluish or gray hue - this seems odd. The picture shows a white sky with the sun penetrating through, as we often see on heavy chemtrailed days. Sometimes when the chem haze is thin the sky appears to be milky blue, and you can see the blue sky through the thin haze of the aerosol particulate that descends to earth in filaments a third the thickness of a human hair.

The main point I am making is this: This books serves to disinform anyone who is unaware of the history of chemtrails and the changing skies, and by listing all the many and varied atmospheric phenomena EXCEPT the very obvious and evident chemtrails, operates as a lie by omission, reinforcing the idea that they don't exist, when in fact, a thimbleful of investigative nous will prove that they certainly DO. The skies over many countries in the world are being altered. Usually the spraying is done by unmarked KC-135 planes at very high altitude. The planes come back for multiple passes and often work in groups of up to four. Prior to 1999 contrails only stayed in the air for thirty seconds maximum. Since 1999, (when the program went GLOBAL after being hitherto operational only in rural parts of the USA), these non-commercial planes have been criss-crossing our skies for a couple of hours a day, turning blue skies hazy white.

This book serves to disinform on the most important aspect of our skies we have seen (but not noticed) for the last 12 years. By omission, it serves the mainstream consensus that nothing unusual is going on. For this reason the book, in my researched opinion, serves as disinformation.

Other parts of the book very interesting. It's just glaringly obvious that odd coloured iridescence and 'bluish' clouds are actually describing the very UNNATURAL phenomena of chemtrail aerosol particulate (ie NOT clouds).

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