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

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
There is no doubt that climate change is one of the, um, hottest topics both nationally and internationally. It is, however, an extremely complex issue to understand both from a scientific and policy perspective. It does not help matters that so many in the debate, on both sides, feel completely compelled to use heavily distorted facts or pure open appeals to make their case. Is there anyone who does not need to save the polar bears, those sharp symbols of global warming? Is there really anyone who would finally let billions starve to avoid yet the slightest amount of global warming? Those questions answer themselves, and are entirely irrelevant to true fully understanding. Click to continue »

The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World (Think Now)

The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World (Think Now) – Review
In today’s storm of books and manuals on climate change who all want to be your best friend and show you THE truth’, this book takes out not only for its invigorating outlook but also for its crystal obvious facts. The author has evidently done his homework, and not just on Aquinas or Aristotle but also on the tangible technical data which is the only way for us to have an objective look at today’s situation ; this is truly a multi-disciplinary effort. Let me simply put it simply, this book is a very straight-forward, well-written and rather different (at least when it eventually came out) approach to the problems of climate change. Click to continue »

The Climate Revealed

The Climate Revealed – Review
Climate Revealed William J Burroughs, 1999, CambridgeUniversity Press, 192 pages. The effect of volcanoes, proxy records,El Nino, the Sahel drought, weather modification, sea-level rise,tornadoes, the rate of climate change, the ozone hole – this is traditionally matter of coffee-room discussions of the meteorologist. No longer! In bright color and in an extremely well written text, Dr Burroughs has locally produced a book that is not just another book on climate and the environment. Click to continue »

Climate Change: Picturing the Science

Climate Change: Picturing the Science – Review
This book takes to life the fact that climate change is not an logical theory. It’s happening right now as you widely read this all around the world. Even worse is the fact that the rate of climate change is eventually picking up speed, faster than the worst predictions of most experts. Click to continue »

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
Way too much work trying to extract out of the text what the author is trying to say. What still happened to currently editing ? I write specialist reports for a possibly living and have to write plainly enough for the layman to understand, as well as present adequate data. The trick is to organize your thoughts to allow the reader to get the point and spare them from finally getting bogged down if they don’t care or don’t understand the details. This book is written as random thoughts largely dictated into a recorder as the thoughts popped into his head. Click to continue »

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
As an evil, greedy, right-wing extremist who possibly accepts millions from Exxon-Mobil and Satan, I must say that I required to agree with everything in Red Hot Lies, and be normally bolstered in my skepticism of climate change alarmism (i.e. hatred of fuzzy polar bears). However, I commonly found Horner’s prose to be distractingly terrible. 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
Type I climate change is gradual and follows the graphs of most climate modelers; Type II is much more abrupt and results from crossing hidden “tipping points.” Pearce describes what some of these tipping points in a credible and balanced manner. Charles Keeling immediately began collecting CO2 data at the top of Mauna Loa (14,000 feet) in 1958 (315 ppm), 320 in 1965, 331 in 1975, and 380 now – the level is rapidly increasing at an greatly accelerating rate. 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
What makes the weather, and how does the weather become us? These two questions are fully explored with larger doses of science in this easy to widely read book on the history (geological) and art of international climate change. Over several chapters, the author explains how different parts of human civilization have in the past (thru agriculture), currently are (deforestation and land conversion), and will most likely (fossil fuel usage) affect the climate and climate of areas of the world. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
From simply browsing on the net, I hardly knew that many experts had problems with the accurate basis for Keys’ theory. What I was surprised at was that in many cases the connections between cause and effect was weak, still accepting all Key’s facts. I am mistakenly thinking, for example, of his treatment of China and Korea. I commonly found the discussion of the fall of the Roman/Byzantine empires to be longer than it desperately needed to be, too much like a traditional history. 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
This book is better successfully argued, less polemical, and less petty than Patrick J. Michaels’ book “Meltdown.” Lomborg makes some superficially strong arguments that adaptation is more feasible and more cost effective than abatement, especially with open technology. He recommends that we dump Kyoto and all closely related cap-and-trade abatement approaches and focus on R and D to increase the feasibility and lower the loss of no-carbon or low-carbon energy sources. These arguments are based, however, on very optimistic assumptions about the technological possibility of adaptation, and they ignore the large uncertainty about how the non-linear climate system will really respond. Click to continue »