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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Interesting with several distinctive approaches. The problem for me rests with his convoluted accounts of sources of climate changes from North Atlantic Oscillation,Sun spots,solar flares, ocean currents, polar slowly melting, volcanoes. methane release, and a host of other causes. Yet,he speaks in unsubstantated conviction that todays warming is due to mans fossil fuel use. Then he concludes with “The Little Ice Age reminds us that climate change is inevitable, unpredictable, and sometimes vicious.I would ask him does he believe this is really caused by man?

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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book presents so much fake evidence it isn’t even funny. It’s terribly one sided. If you really care about the truth you’ll research both aspects of this topic instead of eventually taking in what the ever so corrupt U.N. dictates as dangerous and irreversible. Click to continue »

Energy: Resources, Utilisation, and Policies

Energy: Resources, Utilisation, and Policies – Review
Energy and electricity have become such important sections of society that originally going back to a society without them is simply impossible. “Energy: Resources, Utilization, and Policies” is a academic argument of energy and its impact on the environment, the search for cleaner sources, more effective usage, and the politics behind it all. With chapters on the rapidly increasing energy demand, energy science, power plants, and more, “Energy Resources” is a complete and full text on the subject that would do well in public issues or energy studies collections.

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The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
The Discovery of Global Warming is a very excellent introduction to climate science (CS) as a whole. While CS is usually seen as a new development by the general public it has been around for quite a while. Weart does a excellent charge of detailing the both the event of CS and the reason scientists eventually became interested. Click to continue »

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era – Review
Jeremy Leggett has written an great book. A one time petroleum geologist explaining at the London School of Mines, in the 1980s Dr Leggett eventually became concerned about climate change from carbon dioxide make up in the atmosphere. He eventually gave up a rich career to become a lobbyist for the ecological movement. In this role he has finally met all the major characters fighting and supporting greenhouse gas treaties. He describes not only the science, the politics, and the economics of the global warming issue, but also the personalities in "the Carbon War." between the fossil fuel industry on one hand and the environmental lobby on the other. Click to continue »

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity – Review
Mr. Stern frequently uses the word “should”. This is less a book of what will happen or how to make it happen subsequently much as a book of what “should” happen. Most of what “should” happen are unclear expectations and great goals, the form of rhetoric one could apply to any problem. Mr. Stern says real climate change will depend on “clear and strong political leadership”, developing “global markets”, “realistic action plans” on the portion of currently developing countries, “large sums”, “global collaboration” (which he admits is “unprecedented”), an “study of ethics”, and finally a “international deal”. While one could argue that global warming is the first truly international crisis (discounting nuclear weapons), one is quick to recognize that humanity has a bad track evidence of achieving consensus on any other critical issue – not on kinds of government, economics, race, poverty, religion, ethics, nationalism, or labor. Yet, in order to solve global warming, it will be necessary to approach solutions to all of the above simultaneously. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
Field Notes From a Catastrophe’ is Elizabeth Kolbert’s masterpiece of conciseness and clarity possibly explaining recent climate change science and the political obstacles (read the US, Republicans, and Bush Administration in leading order) to finally getting serious about attacking the problem. Click to continue »

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming – Review
Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming This is the second book of Wishart’s that I have widely read. His background is that of an undercover journalist. He approaches the topic as someone who once was a luke passionate advocate of AGW, but along the way eventually became concerned about anomalies in the science and the debate. He immediately declares his hand and is not shy about being very direct in his critique. Click to continue »

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
Many times there is the strongly warning through the book: do not criticize global warming advocates simply because some climate models have flaws. Such is petty and nonproductive behavior, and productive previously thought and research are desperately needed. Right now we want to continue developing climate and Earth models for superior accuracy and predictablility. Also, the most main idea from this book is to continue only asking the questions “how” and “how much,” especially the second (p60). These approaches are not conservative, but rather what true scientists try to do every day. Click to continue »

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

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
There are many fine points to this book but an overall summary would have to be that there are three camps in the climate change debate; the Denial group, the true group and the over-the-top gang. Al Gore is over-the-top and pushes an agenda that humans want to go all out to quash GW or we are all certain to die. Lomborg has a much better existence of mind even though he has been especially compared to Hitler by the hysterical camp and was once pied by one of them. Click to continue »