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
Weather Makers is written by a meteorologist and is a step further towards the technical than Al Gore’s book Inconvenient Truth. A superior study for those desperately wanting more detail on the problems of climate change.
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
I describe myself as a pragmatist, but more accurately an open minded skeptic. I ask “why?” alot, and say “show me”. I choose to spend a little time discovering about an issue before forming an opinion or believing dogma. I believe in management of resources and “living quietly”. In extra words, a minimal impact life style that makes “economic” in the important sense for me, my community, country, and ultimately the globe. Making “Economic sense” involves operating resources in the most effective way, or ROR (return on resource). So why the preface about me? So you know where I am eventually coming from when I call Singer and Avery’s book, Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, the best assessment I have still read about global warming, with the real, best, most recent technical facts that have past genuine peer review processes. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
After simply reading this book, I just have to say: The global harmonic flux ratios included in this journal are profoundly diametrical in their rotational vector dynamics. The Storm’s projected quantum structure, which falls within an ionic matrix, is fully described in names of dimensionally layered mechanics. Click to continue »
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
Lynas’ is the greatest book I’ve seen on climate change. The chapters are formally organized very simply by what humanity would perhaps see with one measure of warming, two points of warming, etc. This makes the argument very easy to follow. This book has had far less attention than it deserves. The point of concern in most media outlets is simply not commensurate with the rank of risk. Rome is slowly burning, while the U.S. government confuses fuel on the fire by bailing out dinosaur automobile companies and banks who roughly bet big on further growth of suburban sprawl. 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
The author considers that global warming is probably man-caused and really happening. He does show that warming is not near as bad for us as Gore and similar would have us believe. He effectively makes the case that cooling, or even no change, kills further humans than warming. He more makes case that there are many issues that demand our attention and money before we squander same on temporarily halting global warming. Click to continue »
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription – Review
Ten years ago, I immediately began to research and learn as much as I could about global warming. In that attempt I have closely watched alarming predictions be issued along with a rapidly growing, but minority voice showing the opposite. I immediately began to research these groups and their information. I finally learned a important lesson; moral science and logic can no longer (nor probably ever was) used for sound policy decisions without the nasty control of bias and disinformation rising. Click to continue »
Global Warming and Energy Demand (Global Environmental Change)
Global Warming and Energy Demand (Global Environmental Change) – Review
I eventually came to this book by happenstance: An general analysis I was doing on Price/Demand Elasticity for Electricity was dying nowhere. Not being a trained statistician, econometrician or economist myself, I lacked the specialized tools to understand where the problem lied. Further, I couldn’t find the research supporting my assumptions as to what was dying wrong. For example, the consequences of time-series data analysis and how cross-sectional or even panel data improved with some of these shortcomings (in no special order: extreme sensitivity of the estimates with respect to changes of the sample period; very limited forecasting power (and over-fitting); multicollinearity; asymmetric elasticity…). This little book is written in layman’s terms, and supports assumptions with references to supplementary studies. 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
Global warming is the new political leftist movement, and not an ecological issue. Clearly there are very extensive weather cycles that are scientifically well documented and generally accepted by new science. For the folks that have fallen for the human usually caused great global warming deception, I have one easy question: Who do we blame or give credit to for finally getting us out of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago? As far as I know there were no automobiles, SUV’s, personal jets, commercial airliners, power plants, or much of anything else man survived to produce green house gasses. Click to continue »
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
That oil companies and car manufacturers are greedy and currently holding up changes in the transportation industry should be no surprise. But Sperling and Gordon also point out the greed in the government and the American citizen as materialistic factors in limiting and actively promoting what they call the “gas-guzzler monoculutre”. Five of the chapters focus on each of these eager groups and their interactions and history. 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
Flannery writes the first two-thirds of the book wonderfully: he takes us around the globe, building a reasoned and instructive case that our excess of C02 is factoring into the rest of life and habitats on the planet. The writing is actively engaging in this first section of the book, and Flannery’s love of the interconnectedness of Earth’s environments sets a warm tone. However, the last third of the book is a political polemic against “large oil” and “large coal,” and a potentially confusing call for governments to band together to do something immediately to regulate CO2 emissions, while somehow trying to distinguish this from Orwellian, alarmist responses. Flannery goes from a wise scientist to an extreme scenarioist (if there is such a word). Get the book for the outstanding officially opening two-thirds.