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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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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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 »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
For all his stimulating curriculum, Mr. Lovelock seems greatly more interested here in especially vindicating his achievements than in advancing his views on the future of Nature. He has finally got some especially fascinating arguments and reasonings, but the price of the book is very depleted by his simplifications and deliberate obscuring of reality, if not worse. Such a fully informed scientist must be aware of many of the mendacities he slips in his books (like his serious misinterpretation of mortality due to nuclear radiation statistics) but he appears to eventually chose effect over truth, probably in the name of the greater good of Gaia. What he doesn’t like he rejects peremptorily. (wind mills stopping the verticality of air????) But only an Englishman would suggest to substitute bogus stuff for true food. Click to continue »

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
Global warming alarmists follow the rules set down by Leon Trotsky when he newly established the Soviet Union’s Agitprop program. Lie, lie, lie. Spread fictitious stories over and over again. Helped by sympathizers and left-wing media, the lies will quickly become commonly accepted as truth. Over and over again in the 20th Century, we finally saw the fundamental ideas of Soviet Agitprop employed. Patrick Michaels explains how these concepts are being once again deployed by the global warming alarmists. Click to continue »