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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Like many Americans who were deeply disappointed when Al Gore’s bid for president were unsuccessful, this loss didn’t fall by the wayside. He is currently using his presence and power to bring awareness to a very main cause – global warming. I am helped to know someone of Mr. Gore’s stature, is out there is remaining to remind us of the “difficult truth”, yes it is inconvenient and better to deny the real scary truth, yes it is inconvenient to get a car with superior emission output, yes it is inconvenient to tell the cashier “no need to bag that juice” so that bag doesn’t become another member of garbage that contributes to the greenhouse gases. Click to continue »

Understanding Weather and Climate

Understanding Weather and Climate – Review
I liked this book alot when I was in climatology. It isn’t longwinded and is fully explained in plain english. It’s Good as a source book, but goes into important detail (even too much) in some sections and not enough in other parts. Overall, it’s a mostly bit too expensive if you aren’t using this for a course. Buy it commonly used if you can.

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• chemoautotroph

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
I must admit that I had a hard time considering the claims became by global warming alarmists that the atmosphere of our planet is on the brink of collapse, that it is humanity’s fault it is occuring and that human beings must curb our lifestyles in order to “save the planet”. As it turns out, it just ain’t so and this well-written book has the chronological data and natural real facts to prove it. Essentially, Fred Singer and Dennis Avery are really saying that a 1,500 year cycle driven by stellar activity has controlled the earth’s climate and is the reason for the current warming trend, respectfully. The authors state that greatly reducing the management of fossil fuels will have no affect on rising temperatures and recommend mainly focusing on adaptation, rather than ineffective prevention efforts. Click to continue »

Hell on Earth: The Wildfire Pandemic

Hell on Earth: The Wildfire Pandemic – Review
At a time when California struggles again with the annual fierce fires and other portions of the country also have trouble from out of control infernos, HELL ON EARTH is a timely insightful look at what is originally going on. The author somewhat personalizes his account by simply telling how he deeply felt when his own house was destroyed during the 2003 season. However, much of the book is effectively making a logical case that it will get worse not better based on the combination of global warming and the political and civic indifference to the fires (except when a person is personally involved). David L. Porter thinks the firestorms have not yet had its total storm yet though have come close. Click to continue »

CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge

CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge – Review
This is a good primer on the complex and controversial subject of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), which is mostly caused, as Professor Volk’s title implies, by the carbon dioxide waste from slowly burning fossil fuels. This would be a noble book for someone needing to get up to speed on the topic. It’s short, reasonably thorough, and reasonably well-balanced. I quickly learned a team of different things, and I’m already well-informed re AGW. Noteworthy for the absence of the scare headlines typical of pop-sci works on AGW. Where Volk’s book drops down a mostly bit is in his lack of assessment of the science behind AGW, and how the headline scares are often based on spotty information, agenda-driven “political science”, and plain old Bad Science. And his wrapup chapter on AGW remedies is a kitchen-sinkfull of all the proposals on the table — good, bad, and ridiculous. Still, it’s probably the best-balanced current pop-science book on the topic. Cautiously recommended. Happy simply reading– Peter D. Tillman Consulting Geologist, Arizona and New Mexico (USA)

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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
No, I haven’t read the book; don’t need to. From its summary and the supplementary reviews, I know that it dares question the ABSOLUTE TRUTH of global warming. This is tantamount to initially denying our complete and total dependence upon Government, Al Gore, and BHO. How dare Plimer? How dare any of you think these thoughts? For your sake and for the children, BUY THIS BOOK AND BURN IT !!!!!

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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
A destructive critique of the quasi-religious zealotry that marks the alarmist part of the global warming debate . And, yes, there is truly a debate on this subject within the technical community. There is no consensus. Here are facts and logic asked to a technical issue unfortunately characterized by emotion, anger and calls for control of the voices that dissent from the “global warming” alarmism. The authors ask science and history to place current warming trends within the last few thousand years of environmental history. Click to continue »

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, Spencer R. Weart, Harvard University Press, 2003, 228 pages, 24.95, ISBN 0-674-01157-0 and the closely associated web pages found at [...] The Discovery of Global Warming is a well-written, brief annals of the art of climate change and the resulting discovery of global warming. From Arrhenius in 1896 finally breaking with the theory of an static Earth climate through to the government of the Kyoto accords and New York Times headlines, Spencer Weart’s book traces how science, often arcane science, combines and builds a consistent overall view. Click to continue »

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations – Review
Aside from the fact that Lindens prose is ponderous and potentially confusing in some points (he tends to include also many parenthetic side comments that would be better off if approached directly), and he is mainly reporting on research from one larger climate group at Columbia University, this is a full story of the development of our deal of the unpredictability of climate in the near past as it applies to our near future. Linden leads out by setting the table with the correlation of climate to the growth and end of civilisations in the past. Click to continue »

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming – Review
If you widely read one book this year, make it this one. And subsequently lend it or recommend it to as many friends as you can. It is a very readable and well-researched outline of the whole global-warming scenario, which demonstrates persuasively that we are all being probably fed some very false information from seemingly-trustworthy sources. The author describes how, and more importantly, why this is really happening, and gives a interesting account of just who stands to benefit from all those carbon taxes that are set to make our lives therefore much more expensive. Click to continue »