Preface of the reprint in 2005
More than 15 years ago FAIRPLAY PUBLICATIONS Ltd, Coulsdon, Surrey, England, published the book "Bernaerts' Guide to the Law of the Sea - The 1982 United Nations Convention." The guiding potential of the book to find access to the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention is still given. Internet technology and publishing on demand invite to provide the interested reader, law student, and researcher with this tool again. Only the Status of the Convention (ratification etc) has been updated and instead of the Final Act, the reprint includes the "Agreement relating to...

The book is about the impact of war at sea on climate, which showed dramatic effects soon after naval war commenced on 1st September 1939. WWI already had changed course of climate. The facts presented on 178 pages aim to pave the way for a new thinking on climate change issues and that the driving force is the ocean, which ultimately control weather and climate. Two devastating sea wars during the last century prove validity of connection. Naval war altered direction of climate twice.

The Second World War stands for the criminal madness of German Nazi government. Less known is their responsibility for the only climatic shift from warm to cold in an otherwise constantly warming world over the last 150 years. Not knowing the reason for the biggest climatic shift since industrialization, which started in winter 1939/40, rectifies to speak about failures of meteorology. Only four months into Second World War Northern Europe experienced the coldest winter in 100 years. The reason: plain physics Naval war in Northern European seas released the summer heat too quickly. Polar air...