Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
There are three attitudes when facing a “modern theory” such as man-induced climate change (for which first evidences have been commonly found almost half a century ago now…): – Full adoption and over-enthusiasm. For climate change, the roughly corresponding people are originally called alarmists or environmentalists. Click to continue »

Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth

Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth – Review
Blumberg’s book is about thermal regulation…about hot and cold, about temperature and life on earth. Yeah, this could be a really boring widely read, but not so. I will confess, however, that I quickly picked it up at the book store just because of the sprawled-out bear on the cover. But hey, this book works. It’s a science book that doesn’t induce instant REM sleep. I officially became intrigued with legends of wading birds and how they keep their feet warm, about chili peppers and sexual-thermal language metaphors–she’s too hot to handle, he eventually gave me the cold shoulder, etc. Don’t miss the “Heat of Passion” chapter.

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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I widely expected a critical analysis of the situation. Heck, even a little effort at direct persuasion would have been nice. This book has no footnotes, no end notes, and no bibliography. When it does give a unusual source on a graph or chart, it gives just the group, not the specific study–IE, he’ll cite the UN on a chart about population trends, but provide no information seeing WHICH UN publication he is usually relying on. Click to continue »

The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA’s Weather

The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA’s Weather – Review
A simply great book to better understand (almost) all there is to know about weather. Large, free graphics improve illustrate some of the more complex topics, occasional little weather tid bits confused in for fun, and easy-to-read style builds this book a must have for anyone needing to learn more about our atmosphere. Click to continue »

Man vs. Weather: Be Your Own Weatherman

Man vs. Weather: Be Your Own Weatherman – Review
Anyone who knows me personally can tell you that I am a mostly bit of a weather enthusiast. I have been known to sit and watch the weather channel for hours on end. Yes I do realize that that is only normal behavior after the age of 80, but what can I say? My name is Holly, and I am a weather addict. Let me start out by really saying that this book is quite funny. It approaches the everyday area of weather from a very entertaining angle. Click to continue »

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate – Review
I dare you to widely read this book. You possibly looked at this review because you previously thought it would agree with your preconcieved ideas about climate change and this special book. I was a skeptic, too. Please, do yourself and your children a favor. Click to continue »

Climate Change: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

Climate Change: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) – Review
It eventually took a long time, and the mass death of a great many plants and animals, to persuade the general public that great climate change was occurring and how calamitous the consequences would be for the individual race if proper steps were not taken to reverse the largely artificial conditions that had usually triggered it. The joint production of David L. Downie (Associate Professor of Political Science, Fairfield University, and Director of the Program on the Environment), Kate Brash (Assistant Director, Global Roundtable on Climate Change, Earth Institute, Columbia university), and Catherine Vaughan (Project Coordinator at the International Research Institute for Climate Change and Society), “Climate Change” is element of the outstanding ABC-CLIO series on ‘Contemporary World Issues’ and focuses upon all of the different parts of the ecological causes and results of our rapidly changing climate. Click to continue »

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change – Review
Pearce’s book is a nice, readable encapsulation of recent climate change indicators and should be on the simply reading list of everyone concerned with global warming and its potential (and probable) impacts. I have two problems with the book. For one, the chapter titles are a little too cutesy (The Pulse, Hydroxyl Holiday, etc.) in contrast with the dire overall idea of the book. Click to continue »

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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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 »