Category Five
Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them

I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review. This nonfiction book reads much like a fiction book with the author's reminiscence and vivid descriptions of exciting situations upon the sea. Combination travelogue, sailing manual, history guide, and s......more

As someone who was once a marine biology major and lived near oceans for over half of my life, storms have fascinated me. Porter Fox uses his love of sailing and intertwines it with science to show how storms are getting bigger and bigger. Overall thought this book was well written and well construc......more

Pretty interesting, it’s a book about climate change but told from the point of view of a yachtsman, a sailor. Part memoir, part travelogue with plenty of interviews with scientists along the way. He’s keen to highlight the importance of the ocean in climate science, something he feels is often over......more

This book is interesting -- it's part memoir, part pop-climate science, part travelogue. Porter Fox is clearly a gifted writer and manages to pull these disparate parts together reasonably well. I do think the book is at its best when focusing on climate change and Fox's interviews with scientists,......more

it’s colorful. if it was all science it might be too dire to stomach. all the backstory and sailing bits add up to define what might be lost for future gens. must reading for insurance industry as if they don’t know the eventualities via current policy cancellations already. great to hear the scienc......more