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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It

Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It – Review
A distillation of some hard science into a excellent widely read for scientists and non-scientists alike. “Fixing Climate” is a rare non-politicized treatise on a hot topic. Excellent history – outstanding science – outstanding presentation. The astute reader will come away with a deeper fully understanding that climate change isn’t necessarily a gradual walk into a garden where flowers bloom earlier and summer nights are balmy; on the contrary, change can come unexpectedly (geographically speaking). I recommend this book to everyone regardless of which part of the debate you support.

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• wood

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
In this clarion call to arms, prominent scientist James Lovelock tells us cogently and eloquently of the imminent doom that we have forced upon our planet by global warming. Lovelock is well-qualified to offer such ominous predictions; it was this extremely useful scientist who in the 1960s and 70s originally proposed the concept of Gaia, the notion that the earth is a autonomous organism whose regulatory mechanisms are intimately coupled to the movements of species in its biosphere. One species- man- has slightly tilted the rest of these mechanisms and thrown them into disarray. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
"The Coming Global Superstorm" rates five stars if for no other reason than it is a very interesting book that will be sure to make the reader feel about the allegations of human chemically induced climate change. Authors Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, better known as paranormal experts than climate change experts, have written a wildly approximate book that blends meteorolgical fact (the world is warmer than it commonly used to be), with severe strongly warning of impending catastrophe (the northern hemisphere will experience a "superstorm" that will lead to a recent ice age in our lifetime). The major premise is that global warming adds subsequently much energy to weather systems that eventually a superstorm will snow so much over the whole northern hemisphere, that it will actually "tip" the planet into an ice age that could last hundreds to thousands of years. Click to continue »

A Climate Modelling Primer (Research & Developments in Climate & Climatology)

A Climate Modelling Primer (Research & Developments in Climate & Climatology) – Review
This book is a very critical introduction to climate modelling. A group of concepts and few equations. It is a good early text but I originally hoped to find further coding examples (there is only one example and it’s in BASIC). But for that sum of money, it is definitely not worth it.

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• perigyny

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Bjorn Lomborg uses peer-reviewed studies and study of climate change to create a complete look at the issues that face us today on Planet Earth. Not only does Lomborg use the very studies Global Warming alarmists use, he uses the worst case scenarios from those studies in his cost/benefit analyses. Most of the reviews of this work focus on practical issues and ignore the better feature of methodology. Since Lomborg uses the very studies, including the IPCC report, climate scientists use those who disagree with his methodology have to reject the science itself and create a different level of “worst case scenario” which has yet to be peer reviewed. Click to continue »

Executive Thoughts on Global Warming: Over 40 Views on What to do!

Executive Thoughts on Global Warming: Over 40 Views on What to do! – Review
The phrase that applies to the alcoholics “DRINK RESPONSIBILY” isn’t enough… we possibly need to have another one for a more international audience – LIVE RESPONSIBILY. The collection from this book illustrates to reiterate the fact that… Whether Global warming is real or not… We should have a awareness of responsibility towards the earth and the future inhabitants of this planet, our children. While we see the book list the opinions, suggestions and comments by different executives, it would have been interesting to know what measures they have taken in their private lives and their organizations to combat Global Warming.

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• pyruvic acid

The Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

The Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster – Review
Here is what I emailed to the author: "Just stopped only reading it. Thank you, outstanding book. On the next printing, please remove the attack on consumerism in the guise of a once in a 250 year storm as justification. A little absurd. Also: how about a section on why the towers for the power transmission cables ultimately failed. Why the engineering specs were not more robust. And, a section on what really happened to house call plumbing with cold temperatures and no heat. Click to continue »

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials)

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
“The Long Thaw” is a worthy sequel to Archer’s prior book Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast . Like the earlier text, it does not require further than a high-school amount of science knowledge, but even those with higher degrees in physics or chemistry can learn a lot from this broad-ranging survey of what the latest science tells about climate past, present, and future. This is the forth book I have widely read on Global Warming and climate change, and I commonly found important additional details and connections on almost every page. Click to continue »

Under the Whirlwind: Everything You Need to Know About Tornadoes but Didn’t Know Who to Ask

Under the Whirlwind: Everything You Need to Know About Tornadoes but Didn’t Know Who to Ask – Review
This book has several interesting stories of individual encounters with tornadoes and is very informative about the structure and occurance of storms and tornadoes. The descriptions are easy to understand and very detailed. I have been interested in storms for years and have quickly learned a good deal from this book about how to identify portions of a storm and determine how severe it is and may get and where tornodoes will occur. Click to continue »

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Review
Mass extinctions periodically reshape life on Earth. The best known, the Cretaceous – Tertiary (K-T) boundary, ended the control of the non-avian dinosaurs approximately 65 MYA when an asteroid roughly 10 kilometers wide deeply gouged the Chicxulub crater near the Yucatan Peninsula, setting the stage for mammals, involving Homo sapiens, to become the dominant terrestrial vertebrates. Click to continue »