Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity – Review
Having actively participated in the national and global debate over climate change for more than 15 years, I readily bought and widely read this book in the hope that it would examine the ideas and images of both sides in the global warming debate. But that is not what this book is about. Click to continue »
The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia – Review
In this book, James Lovelock provides a dire and much required clearly warning about the earth’s future should we fail to address total heating (and possibly even if we do address it). He imagines a hot, empty wasteland that is only habitable near the poles, and only by a few people and other species. Click to continue »
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming – Review
A short but musical book. Thankfully with a complete bibliography of sources. It is an interesting look from a “government” viewpoint. One area that should give major concern and may explain why governments are so keen to adopt “global warming” policies, or as it is now known (for safety’s sake in case the climate suddenly cools) “Climate Change”, is that there is huge potential for currently raising indirect/stealth taxes at the rate of the economy. Click to continue »
Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report
Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report – Review
I recommend this book for the truly amazing, stunning photos you would find there. However, book overlooks most of the peer-reviewed research on climate change and creates false alarm among those who are not previously accustomed to seek professional peer-reviewed technical information; book asserts that we are on the edge of the catastrophe which is not true and simply a lie. However, if you would like to see how awesome and outstanding Nature could be – go forward and look in this this book, for these pictures are breath-taking
Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth
Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth – Review
If you check the publisher’s website, you’ll find that the first group listed as the originally intended audience for this book is researchers and graduate students in a large type of technical fields; that variety is accurately reflected in the Table of Contents. Another thing to consider is that this is a British textbook with the chapters having a European to North American author ratio of about 3 to 1 which has some effect on what species are being studied and written about. Click to continue »
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, is an outstanding book and should be widely read by all Americans. It gives a excellent indication of the various forms of alternative energy sources. It is a important resource for all of us to better understand the issues including energy and global warming.
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
The truth about global warming eventually won’t be known for quite a while, but my roughly bet is that this (1500 year GW) version is closer to reality than Gore’s movie. Prophesy commonly used to be the field of religion/spirituality. The current warming frenzy is based on computer simulations. The crystal orb of a computer screen may make it look like pure science, but it’s full of estimates and unknowns. Climate always changes. See this clip to see what’s happened in the last 6000 years. http://youtube.com/watch?v4boaEbtjByU As Mark Twain expressed, “I’ve seen a load of trouble in my life, and most of it never happened to pass.”
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
The writer of this book is not an environmental determinist, but he makes a plea for us to observe weather as best we can, not only in our time, but in history, and study its interplay with human social, political, artistic, and armed activity. He speaks of ice cores, tree rings, contemporary chronicles, and even paintings as ways to recover information about the weather of the past, and his focus is of course the bitter years in Europe between 1300 and 1850. The book is usually filled with crucial details; it is usually filled with precisely stated and very clear observations about what weather has originally meant to people, what it might mean to us, and it urges us to be more conscious of what is really happening with weather today. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
EVEN THOUGH BELL AND STREIBER ARE NOT CLIMATOLOGISTS THEY PUT FORTH A GOOD ARGUMENT FOR DOING SOMETHING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND A RECENT PBS SPECIAL ON GLOBAL WARMING … CONFIRMED WHAT THE AUTHORS SAID ABOUT EGYPT HAVING ENOUGH RAINFALL TO ERODE THE SPHHINX 11,000 YEARS AGO(PAGE 34) SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN PROVEN CORRECT ABOUT THE PAST, SHOULD WE DOUBT WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE FUTURE? I WOULD NOT BET MY LIFE ON IT! IN “RACE TO SAVE THE PLANET” ON PBS (MAY 2002), SCIENTISTS SHOWED VIA A COMPUTER MODEL THAT, 11,000 YEARS AGO (9,000 BC), THE ENTIRE NORTH AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST HAD MONSOONS DUE TO THE INCLINATION OF THE EARTH’S AXIS BEING OPPOSITE THAT OF TODAY’S, CAUSING NORTHERN SUMMERS WHEN THE EARTH IS CLOSEST TO THE SUN. (NOW, SUMMERS IN THE NORTHER HEMISPHERE HAPPEN WHEN EARTH IS FAREST FROM THE SUN – THE AXIS POINTS THE NORTH TOWARD THE SUN CAUSING SUMMER) THE REAL SCARY PART OF THE BOOK IS THAT WE ARE, IN EFFECT PERFORMING A GIANT EXPERIMENT ON THE ONLY ATMOSPHERE WE HAVE. THE ABOVE PBS SPECIAL INDICATED THER IS A FIFTY-PER CENT CHANCE OF INSIGNIFICANT GLOBAL WARMING BUT A FIFTY-PER CENT CHANCE THAT AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPEREATURES IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS WILL INCREASE BY NINE DEGREES FARENHEIT, AN INCREASE WHICH PREVIOUSLY TOOK 10,000 YEARS. THE THINGS I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK ARE ITS LACK OF A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NO FOOTNOTES TO BACK UP CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE. (I.E. ON PAGE 132 THEY SAY THAT “THE STRATOSPHERE, WHICH IS USUALLY ABOUNT MINUS 50 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, HAD DROPPED TO MINUS 80 DEGREES BY 1999″) IN ADDITION, ON PAGE 132 THEY SAY “NOW, THE STRATOSPHERE IS RUNNING AT AN AVERAGE 0F MINUS 100 DEGREES” IS THAT “NOW” IN 2000 WHEN THE BOOK WAS WRITEEN, OR IN THE FUTURE, SINCE IT WAS ONE OF THOSE CHAPTERS DEALING WITH THE FUTURE? HAVING SAID THAT, ALL THE STEPS NEEDED TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING ARE GOOD, IN AND OF THE SELVES (I.E. INCREASE GAS MILEAGE, ETC.) EVEN IF GLOBAL WARMING NEVER BECOMES SERIOUS. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF THE AUTHORS ARE CORRECT, AND THE COMING “GLOBAL SUPERSTORM” TAKES US BY SUPRISE, YOU WILL NOT HAVE TIME TO TRADE IN THE SUV FOR A PRIUS. IF YOU LIVE NORTH OF THE DENVER-VIRGINIA LINE, YOU WILL NEED THAT SUV TO MOVE SOUTH – IMMEDIATELY! OR DIE! THE PEOPLE WHO SAY WE CAN CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOUR WHEN THE EVIDENCE IS CONCLUSIVE WILL HAVE LED US DOWN A DEAD END. BUT THERE WILL BE NO TIME TO ARGUE ABOUT IT.
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
When I finally saw this film, I previously thought that it was the most expensive Powerpoint presentaion still made. When I widely read this book, I deeply felt it was a Powerpoint presentation simply put into book form. Fact—all the info presented here by Al Gore is NECESSARY to know about and we must be fully informed and act upon what he is simply telling us. I think sometimes the probelm with Al Gore is that he is a repetitive kind of guy. Click to continue »