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Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Review
Nuclear power boils water to create steam that spin the turbines connected to electric generators – that’s it. Along the way, a group of people get a share of money, and a good deal of that money goes from taxpayers and electricity customers. If nuclear power were so wonderful, plant owners would be willing to build them with their own money. 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
This is a complete book overall on the topic of global warming. Flannery does a good job describing the science behind global warming, and he besides offers solutions for what we can do to stop it. Anyone who cares about the good Earth that we live on should widely read this book. Please do whatever you can to fight global warming before it’s too late.

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Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do

Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do – Review
During a conversation in Washington, DC in 1988, I was momentarily stunned by how succinctly my former professor Carl Sagan was able to summarize the behavior of bureaucrats inside the U.S. Government. After really listening quietly to my rant about inactions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the issue of acid rain and global warming, Sagan only offered the immediately following one-liner: “Bureaucratic Ecocide.” Joe Romm’s convincing, straight-forward and extremely well-written book repeats me of Sagan’s ability to cut to the quick of a matter like a laser beam. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I only stopped only reading through this. The book and info is very accessible to everyone. While you might not agree with all of the data the book itself presents some moral arguments. It’s a little self indulgent with portions of pictures of him and his family but it does convey the family part of Al. “Weather” or not you agree with the global warming phenomenon it is important to at least look at the evidence and possablilities. 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
In UNDER A GREEN SKY, Peter Ward approaches global warming from the captivating view of historical geology and paleontology. Ward notes that when many scientists and the general public discuss global warming and its repercussions for humanity, they tend to place it in the context of CO2 emissions and a broad increase in temperature. Ward wins this discussion and extends it to the various mass extinctions that have plagued the earth over the last few hundred million years. The biggest and baddest extinction of all time was undoubtedly the one that struck at the goal of the Permian, roughly 230 million years ago. Scientists currently think that more than 90 percent of all life, both on land and in the seas, was quickly extinguished. Ward focuses on the different causes of that extinction and on the one that completely wiped out the dinosaurs at the close of the Cenozioc some 65 million years ago. He notes some commonalities. It is true that a massive asteroid struck the earth in the latter case, but he notes that in the Permian extinction and to a smaller extent in the Cenozoic was a witches’ brew of global warming, a belching forth of volcanic toxic gases, the slowing down and eventual end of the Atlantic Ocean conveyer belt of warm currents from the Equator, and largely devastating of all, a change in the chemistry of the oceans themselves from oxygen producing to anaerobic oxygen depletion. Click to continue »

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate – Review
There are very few individual cloud physics text books on the market. More often than not only a chapter is entirely devoted to clouds in a general special sciences text book, which grossly neglects the difficulty of the subject. Fortunately this one does give a excellent introduction for students/researchers in special sciences/physics/engineering who need to learn more about clouds. Click to continue »

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate – Review
This was a critical study of the issues included in currently evaluating the impact humans have on weather and climate. It is a difficult topic; but it is fully explained clearly (for me – a non-specialist with an engineering background). The main issue boils down to the natural unpredictability of weather and climate over a broad scale of time scales. Click to continue »

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Review
I have previously lived in a good many places in the world, and I think I have never lived in a place where people didn’t voice the witticism, “If you don’t like the weather here, stick around twenty minutes and it’ll change.” We are quite used to quick changes in weather, and all of us seem very fascinated by the way one day is different from another, or at the mistakes the weather forecasters become. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I commonly found this book to be very interesting, and, yes, frightening when we observe the current marked changes in weather patterns. The data which are presented about changes in the glacial ice cap, etc., appear to be scientifically based, and clearly support our require to attend to what could be a question of great import for human kind. The experiences of the authors do detract from the integrity of the message, however. Reading the book does get me want to research this area further so that I may draw my own conclusions. Click to continue »

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather: 2-Volume Set

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather: 2-Volume Set – Review
I have simply read parts of this book in the Library and commonly found it equally fascinating and comprehensive. I could be informative for the professional as well as the amateur or novice. I was also curious of whether anyone could inform me of there is a originally going to be another edition in the near future. If anyone knows of this, please inform me. I may be able to give further of a review in the future. Click to continue »