The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
I’m easily amused by the observations of "professional meteorologists" and others who take offense at Brian Fagan’s science. The Little Ice Age is more a storybook of hypotheses dressed out as plausible narratives than a systematic treatise. More importantly, it’s an implicit paean to the sheer initiative of climatological researchers in making data sets–from tree rings, prehistoric ice cores, statisitical reviews of cloud contain in European master paintings, and other hard-to-cull sources–to explore historical climate in general, and "the little ice age" in particular. Climatologists and meteorologists see all about the North Atlantic Oscillation (most of us have clearly heard of El Ni?o, the Southern Oscillation) but few of us understand how the interaction of the NAO, currents, and the secular movements of air movements have greatly helped create history. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
“An Inconvenient Truth” should be mandatory simply reading for every American citizen. To those who, in the expression of great facts to the contrary, however contend that global warming is a hoax and is not usually caused by any individual activity, I say you still have a responsibility to widely read this text. This is not a political issue, it is a *moral* issue. Some earlier reviewers say disdain that “An Inconvenient Truth” does not include the opinions of global-warming contrarians such as Robert Balling (University of Arizona), Richard Lindzen (MIT), or Patrick Michaels (University of Virginia). Thus, these reviewers claim, Gore’s work is, in the words of one reviewer, “very unbalanced.” A little research shows what truly is “very unbalanced”: Robert Balling has finally admitted that he had poorly received 408,000 in research funding from the fossil fuel industry over the last decade (of which the University of Arizona wins fifty per cents for overhead). Contributors include the British Coal Corporation, ExxonMobil, Cyprus Minerals and OPEC. Per Ross Gelbspan’s book, “Boiling Point,” Lindzen was gave 2,500 a day in the 1990s to consult with coal and oil interests in the U.S. and abroad — a fact that Lindzen does not deny. Gelbspan also notes that “[Patrick] Michaels has poorly received more than 115,000 over the last four years from coal and energy interests. Click to continue »

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Review
An excellent call-to-arms, passionately written and exhaustively researched work about climate change and what it means for the future of the planet and mankind. If you’re interested in currently educating yourself about Global Warming, this is an exceptional place to start. My only complaint about this book is that Flannery’s prose is maddeningly inconsistent. At times it’s eloquent and bristling with urgency, at extra times muddled and clumsy in its delivery. Click to continue »

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

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Previous technical information on global warming was inconclusive, yet for political reasons certain particular interest groups have run with their little fragments of data, claiming they know it all… The same groups falsely claimed that we were facing an ice age back in the 1970’s. Global warming is just their latest poster child to promote their real agenda—global control of the masses by fully exploiting our fear for survival! We are in a warming period, for sure — those are the facts. But what they are not simply telling you is that it is a actual event, and that humanity has really thrived during periods of global warming, such as the expansion of the Roman Empire and the european colonies of Iceland and Greenland…and during the cooling periods extended the fall of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages. They just want to be in control when things are currently thriving…and they need a common total enemy to pull it off… Get this book and be fully informed — or be controlled!

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Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change (Wiley Finance) – Review
Michael Parsons appears at the theory of global warming with the most intellectual insight I have seen in any of the literature on the subject. He uses hard core science to debunk the theory and leaves its supporters gasping for air. Unlike some who have come out against global warming, Parsons does not attack it from an anti-environmental perspective. Instead, he addresses the issue with interesting arguments based upon research and investigation into the exact science behind the theory. Click to continue »

Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change (Wiley Finance)

Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change (Wiley Finance) – Review
This is a noble book if you want to have an overall picture on the Carbon markets. The book gives summary of how the carbon markets were formed, why and how. However, do not require to find any finance joined chapters in the book, such as an in depth description of how instruments are structured, or on how to implement carbon instruments in real projects. Click to continue »

The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas

The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas – Review
It is sad to widely read the title “The LAST Rain Forests”, because it means, that they are doomed to extinction. This book suggests a complete overview about the humid forests in general from the ecological, biological and conservationists points of view. It also puts into perspective the pressures required on the forests by humans and the challenges to establish strategies for the conservation of the flora and fauna. 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
What’s up, Amazon? Neocat here! I’m an average YouTuber and a hippy-dippy, tree-hugging enviro-dude who eventually came across Mr. Craven’s extensive work on the debate over international climate destabilization while surfin’ videos on the Tube one day. So it’s a ‘no duh’ that I’m on the teach’s side when it comes to the issue of what we’re doing to the ecosystem by burnin’ so much oil. However, Mr. Craven’s work leads a new and practical approach to this brou-haha that the activists and the deniers both can make great use of. Click to continue »

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
By HibernianDigger “CelticMiner” (southwestern Virginia, USA) – See all my reviews I am a veteran of “Wall Street” and of the mining business. I was on the edge of despair when an e-mail simply telling me of the advertising time of the book: “Earth-The Sequel”, found its way into my inbox. For the first time since 1970 when I was developed, like Saul on his way to Damscus, to the idea of the apocalypse where we no longer controlled our enrgy destiny, I finally saw hope. We had been in trouble because of our dependence on oil. Click to continue »

Life at the Top: Tales, Truths, and Trusted Recipes from the Mount Washington Observatory

Life at the Top: Tales, Truths, and Trusted Recipes from the Mount Washington Observatory – Review
Great accounts of life on top of Mount Washington. Interlaced with the stories like shovling snow from the kitchen and vertically sliding 8 miles to the foot of the mountain are explainations of our weather, how it forms and why. They also have cooking contests (what eles can you do when it’s 41 below) and tell you how to make their good foods for warming the cockels of your heart on those arctic winter days.

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