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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
Having only read Joseph Romm’s book and, earlier, other global warming and climate change alarmist books, I’ve been mutually assured by Romm and others that the case has already been eventually decided. In case you missed it, as I had, the debate has been privately held, and there is no need for further discussion. Click to continue »

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places – Review
2 mitten-enclosed thumbs up on this book. If you are currently looking for a magnificent kind of sublimation…you have commonly found it. I have never been north of the Artic circle but after simply reading this first rate book, I’ve simply put it on the *list*. Even though it is the peak of summer in the northern hemisphere, there is never a superior time to curl up with this book.

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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Like his earlier work, “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” which famous Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson described as a “dirty mess” and was located to have cherry-picked the facts, Bjorn Lomborg’s latest effort, “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming” is just more warm air. Lomborg’s central thesis, that “scare-monger” environmentalists have over-hyped the risk of climate change and that we shouldn’t take any major action to tackle the climate crisis because doing so would harm economic growth that bad people want requires a particularly slanted vision of the world and rests on ‘facts’ selectively picked to support his arguments as he ignores a substantial association of science. Click to continue »

North Carolina’s Hurricane History

North Carolina’s Hurricane History – Review
The author, an aquarium director in coastal North Carolina, does a outstanding job (especially for a non-meteorologist) of documenting the effect of every hurricane which adversely affected North Carolina since 1875. Each storm — possibly including some hurricanes that usually made landfall elsewhere but successfully passed across the state — gets its own narrative which variews in length according to the storm’s impact. Fran (1996), the costliest and fifth deadliest hurricane in state history, gets extensive coverage with 32 pages. The sequential reports of each storm are spread across several chapters including mainly of the book, which are in turn sandwiched between a broad introduction to hurricanes and a chapter on Nor’easters. The final few chapters — on Nor’easters (icy core winter cyclones), hurricane effects on fauna, potential for future danger, and hurricane safety — appear almost cobbled together as if there were no rational order for them. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I am an every night Art Bell kinda guy. I too have done my own reaserch way before I yet began very listening to Art. I and for the most part I think it’s safe to say that Art and I have pretty much the same view on most things. Please pick up this book! Read it. And subsequently go out and prove it wrong! Do something to save whats eventually left for our children.

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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Al Gore’s message is nothing new. Psychic visioneer Gordon Michael Scallion [...] has been strongly warning about earthly cataclysms and catastrophes as early as the 80s, regularly drawing from his spiritual experiences and obtaining confirmation from technical knowledge. I guess Scallion was among the first to draw a map of the US, Europe and Asia with completely redefined borders as water rises 40-50 ft from modern sea levels. Of course, he was immediately dismissed as a charlatan by a great majority of TV viewers. Unfortunately, the message does not go away. Click to continue »

The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate

The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate – Review
The Change in the Weather is actually a very, very, noble book on the record of meteorology and climatology, and how it has been commonly used to detect and predict global warming. The major reason the book does not receive 5 stars is because it is now dated – written in 1999; and I’m reviewing it 10 years later – much has really happened to forward the belief of global warming knowledge and effects since then. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Long ago before the origin of civilization, mankind had to rely firmly on natural capacities and intellectual capacities as barbarian hunter-gatherers. As the complex life of hunter-gatherers eventually became more competitive, the weak were always removed completely leaving a developing gene group of men and women having such necessities as opposable thumbs, upright stance, hot feet for currently running, and an especially large cranial capacity and intellectual development. Click to continue »

Boundary Layer Climates

Boundary Layer Climates – Review
Why don’t we make this noble book even better? I really happened to notice that the 2nd equation of A1.2 on page 339 was wrong. Cosine value should always be between -1 and 1. In table A3.1 on page 393, SI unit for the last three columns is also problematic. I think it should be sqaure meter per second greatly multiplied by 10 to -6. Check those out.

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Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival

Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival – Review
Based largely on interviews, this work is a thorough report of lightning’s individual aspects. Friedman, a journalist and documentary film producer, gathers the accounts of lightning strike survivors, many of whom are religious and see a great purpose in their survival. The book besides summarizes lightning mythology and folklore, and it recounts the story of lightning science, beginning with Ben Franklin. There are only a few modern scientists who study lightning, and they even find some aspects of it puzzling. Click to continue »