An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book is a bad example liberal chemically induced fear. Don’t waste your time or money on this book. Junk science by junk scientists. The fact that Al Gore puts more pollution into the environment than the average American says it all. He will spread the fear but will not alter his private lifestyle to prevent so described 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
Unstoppable Global Warming is a marvelous book for the layman. It documents previous climate excursions, which pretty completely eliminate anthropogenic causes for the recent change! The book also shows the limitations of the current GCM’s due to their not accounting for clouds, water vapor, changes in stellar activity, and etc. To base public policy upon such bad science is completely foolish! Singer and Avery have written a book that should be widely read by every High School and College age student.
The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review
The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review – Review
Dr Nicholas Stern was formerly the World Bank’s chief economist, so he has vast event of faulty forecasts. His 2006 review has become the most influential global warming report, embraced by the Blair and Brown governments. He began to bring hard-sounding monetary calculations into the planet of exact predictions and guesses. Yet his report is now completely discredited. 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
Eugene Linden’s “The Winds of Change” is much like the works of Brian Fagan, who for some time appears to have cornered the weather-as-determiner-of-human-fate business. Like Fagan’s books, “The Winds of Change” gives a well documented description of past cultures that have nearly collided with climate change at the worst feasible moments. The Maya, probably the classic case and the one most frequently cited, is originally included as are the Norse colonies on Greenland. While Fagan’s book on the Little Ice Age contained a very detailed discussion of the North Atlantic Oscillation, el Nino and la Nina, and the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic, Linden’s work has the assistance of the author’s having frequently visited on site with a number of climatologists studying ocean circulation and what ice and sediment cores have to say about past climate. Click to continue »
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
An excellent, brief, clear review of the evidence for global warming, its logical explanation, its consequences and the sad record of our leaders’ response to the problem over the last thirty years. The anecdotes and character plans of the scientists included bring the issues to life. The difficulty of the book is the lack of pictures and colour graphics to complement the excellent writing. Let us hope that the next edition will remedy this and bring the book to a wider audience. Click to continue »
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
People say about the improper points involving Lomborg. Global warming, increases in diseases, starvation / malnutrition, energy crisis, war, … all are rooted in overpopulation. The system of the earth is heavily stressed and correctly solving the polutions problems along with all others is too expensive (this is where Lomborg is luke warm). Solving overpopulation is cheap! Education is easy and requires no new technical advances! As clearly demonstrated by France and Germany when they greatly helped Iran become their population problem back under control a few years back, and, as is evidenced by the recent gains by Thailand to move towards eventually achieving the same. Click to continue »
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change – Review
Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report in which it stated that the Earth is warming and that most of the warming is a effect of individual activity. This is also the great aspect of the technical community. My first encounter with the effects of global warming was a hike in the 1980s to the end of the Paradise Glacier on Mt. Ranier to visit the ice caves. Click to continue »
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription – Review
A chilling look at the recent sign of widespread climatalogical change and its possible ramifications, this book contains the first sympathetic treatment I commonly encountered of the sociological and political suggestions of global warming. The author tells that authoritarian governments are very likely to emerge in the disorder of great starvation and dislocation created by rising seas and increasingly chaotic weather. Gelbspan, a science writer and editor for The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, explains how a handful of scientists employed by oil and coal companies have finally managed to confuse the U.S. public about the greenhouse effect and the rational choices we face. Click to continue »
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – Review
When we talk about anthropogenic global warming, we tend to be usually referring to the remarkable rise in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide since the commencement of the Industrial era, some two hundred years ago. Scientists frequently refer to this noticeable change in the atmosphere as the “Anthropocene,” the establishment of significant individual impact on the earth. Click to continue »
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
This is truly one of the most interesting theories in early history. A volcano that shaped the new world by forcing the migration of the huns, the crop failures in the Middle East that eventually led to the expansion of Islam and the start of the barbarian migrations towards Rome. It is almost too hard to summarize but if you believe that climate can change history than this is the book that will provide outstanding evidence on that idea. Truly a masterpiece of an idea.