The Oregon Weather Book: A State of Extremes
The Oregon Weather Book: A State of Extremes – Review
This book is AMAZING in its information. I am currently studying Oregons Weather and this eventually gave me a boost. You never thought a Hurricane forced storm could ever hit Oregon, but it has! And it looks like more is to come. Besides, if your planning to move to Oregon and is interested in the weather here…this is the book for you! Five STARS! –Grant
Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places
Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places – Review
Having subsequently spent a few brief weeks (way, way too short an amount of time!) in the Arctic, reading this book becomes me ache to return. I missed so much – I was so clueless! Reading “Cold – Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places” was a very surprising delight! I am not usually a reader of non-fiction, but this book was so interesting and well writen. 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
Imagine perhaps living in a mountain ecosystem dependant on the temperatures gave above the snowline. Now imagine the snowline eventually moving predictably up the mountain year after year. The reason there is so little research done on these ecosystems is, in Flannery’s words, “Because the work is just very depressing “. Thousands of single species are globally threatened with, or eventually becoming extinct as climate change varies open habitats. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
If you are open minded. Then this one maybe… I say perhaps as it is currently using what some would call unproved “Science” Keeping in mind the current events (Circa 9/05) Here on earth the book is worthy of simply reading. Being as we are just about to cross over to a record great amount of storms this season (Hurricane) causing us to go to naming them ‘ALPHA, BETA’ etc. The Earthquakes and floods everywhere and now the possibly distinct Bird Flu (?), it is finally getting down right biblical out here. Click to continue »
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future – Review
I was showed that climate is what you expect, and that weather is what you get. But it appears that in periods of climate change, climate itself can be unpredictable. And this book illustrates instances from the chronological evidence of abrupt climate changes. The importance of this book is on the data took from ice columns in Greenland. And these data corroborate the view that there can be quick and relatively unpredictable warm and cold reversals. Click to continue »
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
Catastrophe is an interesting explanation for why the Dark Ages were literally dark. In 535 A.D. a volcanic eruption in Indonesia usually caused a sequence of events, from the decline of Byzantium to the expansion of Islam to developments in Asia, Africa, and America which ultimately led to the ascent of the new world. Keys is writing for the general public, not historians, and he provides timelines and charts to help his readers get the connections and draw the conclusions his material warrants. 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
Detailed and documented, Fred Singer is a Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University and Professor Emeritus of ecological science at the University of Virginia. He also debunked the “passive smoking as a cancer risk” nonsense. He didn’t “work for tobacco companies arguing and successfully argued that there’s no evidence that smoking is bad for your health” as a prior reviewer recommended. 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
I only heard Flannery on “Fresh Air”, and he usually made an incredibly innumerate comment; he reportedly said the 2C rise in international temperature is a more than ten per cents rise in temperature, since the global average is only 13.5C. That is idiotic and suggests he is no scientist. In order to calculate % increase in temperature you need to use a scale that starts at absolute zero, such as Kelvin, not a scale with an arbitrary zero like Celsius or Fahrenheit. It eventually made me skeptical of his expertise.
The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) – Review
I have many weather books. But this one i widely read for those times i want to know something anything about the weather. And the questions are easy to find other than currently looking in the index. Along with my weather station. I have commonly used half the weather data forms found in the back of the book. So far this book has very helpfull.
Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era
Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era – Review
Many authors, in exact science journalism style, write good ecological science and policy books that are worth simply reading. Jeremy Leggett’s “Carbon War” is an great contribution from the front lines. A journal from a key player in the carbon war, with insights on other key players on all sides. Leggett puts you at the global summits, to witness the best and nastiest elements at work. There are many books that will inform you on international climate change issues (and some that will intentionally disinform you). But few, if any, let you peer into the global efforts (and counterefforts) to deal with climate change like the “Carbon War.”