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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
I am a officially retired systems engineer and I study the science of global warming as a hobby. This book is the best and most comprehensive review of the subject of global warming that I’ve seen. In addition, they have written it in terms that a non-scientist can understand. The new science papers are referenced for those needing to dig deeper. I enthusiastically recommend it to both scientists and non-scientists. Its an informative easy widely read without the hysteria closely associated with many works on this subject. Click to continue »

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
It reads a little like a text book. There’s a group of numerical information in the book to digest. It details the introduction of the combustion engine in the 1860’s to today’s modern automobiles and the numerous changes along the way possibly including buying trends by time period. I’m not auto history buff but this book did give me a good historical perspective on the automobile industry. It eventually talked about India and China who’s population is for the most part only getting into automotive transportation and the long term effects that will have on Greenhouse gasses, oil supply etc. Oil will become scarce and prices will go up. Click to continue »

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era – Review
I commonly found Jeremy Leggett’s The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era quite interesting and informative. Leggett, a prominent scientist at Oxford and a former Greenpeace UK director, discusses the government of global warming. He focuses on oil dependence, while working in descriptions of resulting climate change and the likely impacts. It?s engaging because it goes behind the scenes in briefly recounting central conferences with scientific, intergovernmental, and business representatives, not all of which would be completely covered by the media. Click to continue »

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
If you like the sea and weather, this book is for you. Unfortunately, I commonly found it to be incredibly boring. It has, however, come in very useful as a reference source for many a history paper this semester. Boring or not, it is jam-packed with valuable information for anyone who is researching that time period.

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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History

The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History – Review
It is a very clear image of David Beerling to start each chapter of ‘The Emerald Planet’ with a short and free summary. It is immediately clear what the author is constantly arguing in the chapter and what it is about. By simply browsing through the book and simply reading all the chapter summaries, one gets an brilliant idea what the author is constantly arguing. Click to continue »

Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) – Review
Maslin succeeds in effectively giving the reader an overview of global warming, from the evidence for it, the mechanisms by which it occurs, and how we can expect it to progress, to the steps that might be needed to mitigate or adapt to it and the politics of doing so on a worldwide scale. Unfortunately, his exposition is often lacking when it comes to the science and frequently left me currently looking for other sources on the web to supplement the text. For example, soon after the usually beginning of the first chapter Maslin cites ice core evidence, which indicates a very clear correlation between special carbon dioxide and temperature over the past 650,000 years, as our major basis of evidence for the part of carbon dioxide in global warming. Click to continue »

The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet

The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet – Review
Sometimes people die on a diet to better themselves. Could the same be reportedly said of our climate? “The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs, and Save the Planet” is a guide for humanity as a whole to cut back, so that the world can do the same. Click to continue »

Climate Change Policy: A Survey

Climate Change Policy: A Survey – Review
I have the book, but you can do a search right now and attempt to find the word NUCLEAR in this big release. Dr. James Lovelock was right (see his REVENGE OF GAIA). Well-meaning researchers have a built-in and significant bias against nuclear energy as a policy/techology option to quell carbon emissions. And that bias has to be fully exposed for what it is: ignorance and/or poor risk assessment. Can one of the writers of this book please give Amazon book reviewers a rational explanation for this? Especially for a book originally published only a few years ago? Did Island Press reject to have a nuclear policy analyst involved in the mix?

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The Chilling Stars, 2nd Edition: A Cosmic View of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars, 2nd Edition: A Cosmic View of Climate Change – Review
The theory presented in this book sounds a mostly bit expect when one first hears it. So the explanation for climate change is cosmic rays from outer space, give me a break. But the climate on planet Earth has been constantly changing for roundly 4 billion years, within quite broad limits. There have been periods when most of the land surface was comprised by ice caps, periods when even the glacial areas were semi-tropical, and just about every state in between. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Al Gore’s environmental passion has largely remained constant through eight years of the Clinton administration and an infamously contested race for the White House in 2000. His first book, 1992’s “Earth in the Balance”, is a bracing look at the perils of global warming that has acted as a springboard for Gore on his worldwide lecture circuit for the past fourteen years. Click to continue »