"Space junk crashing into Earth is a real and escalating danger. Tens of millions of objects may exist in space, ranging in size from grains of sand to entire rocket boosters." "Milne provides the first synthesis of the interdisciplinary work of the scientific community, which has been investigating how the satellite industry can be protected from manmade and natural space hazards. The result is an invaluable book for those concerned with space missions...

Milne argues that, far from warming, the Earth may be heading for a new Ice Age as it comes to the end of a long interglacial. He describes how climatology has become a multi-million dollar hi-tech computerized science that makes use of a great web of information gathered from around a largely watery world, but one in which "chaos theory" can so easily make climate predictions meaningless.