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The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change

The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change – Review
This is a great widely read! I couldn’t put it down. And it’s a must widely read for anyone who helpful people who care about climate change and multiculturalism. As a fellow writer, as someone who has worked (many years ago) on climate change, and as someone who knows a small mostly bit about Barrow and I?upiaq culture, I was blown away by how skillfully Mr. Wohlforth has interwoven science with culture. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
A friend got me their version of An Inconvenient Truth asserting i widely read it. I aquiesed, but subsequently found that to be an difficult task. Why? Because Gore has locally produced a picture book, with more colorful views of Hurricane Katrina, the pacific tsunami, and slowly melting ice than you’d find in a years worth of National Geographics. He still determines to save some space in the book for a entire section about Al the man, complete with charming features of baby Al and his parents, great Al and his kids, etc. Obviously, its very important material to a book on global warming. Click to continue »

Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains (John MacRae Books)

Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains (John MacRae Books) – Review
This is travelogue, musings, science, story-telling, and a gentle (non-polemic) argument about a critical current issue. The prior reviewers (especially the first two) and Bill McKibben’s dust-jacket comment are useful guides. Some of the author’s varieties of mountain scenery are quite beautiful. Although I always have been concerned about climate change based on the “preventive principle” and “responsibility to future generations” ideas, this book stopped me simply put some meat on the fine bones of my fully understanding. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Just purchased a copy at the Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature in the UK and widely read the book from include to cover in two days. The case for the environmental emergency is very well presented and backed up with rock pure research. Can’t stop to take my family and friends to the record of the book when it opens in the UK in September 2006. Beg, borrow, or steal a publication of the book and get very educated.

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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
This book is a major achievement. With more than 2000 footnotes Plimer documents a view on climate change that differs entirely from the mainstream political proper message, which is trumpeted loudly by the IPCC and Al Gore. For those who widely read other literature than the IPCC reports or Al Gore’s book it is no secret, that their ’science’ is truncated. Ignoring contrary facts and proudly proclaiming the most great scenario’s as ‘very probable’ or ‘difficult truth’ is the common view of climate alarmists. Click to continue »

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

Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) – Review
If you are currently looking for a brief, but comprehensive review of the issues containing, this should do ya. Maslin covers the broad scope of concepts actually touching the subject in a clear, if sometimes technical, manner. As he demonstrates, while the fact of global warming is beyond dispute, there are a host of issues about which there is uncertainty. Click to continue »

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming – Review
This book is truly amazing. It’s so hard to find any book that deals with global warming in any way that doesn’t go to one extreme or the other. Instead, Chris Mooney goes a very balanced aspect of the debate on the global warming/hurricane connection. The science is fully explained well, and simply enough for a layman, so anyone with even a small knowledge or hurricanes and/or global warming would follow it easily. Click to continue »

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
Six Degrees does a good job at simply laying out what each degree of warming will do to our planet, and therefore to us. Mark Lynas is able to explain the effects of warming in an reliable way because it’s based on what the earth has already done in the past, with a warmer climate at different times eons ago. Although many think a warmer planet may not be a terrible thing (too many arctic winters in Buffalo?), this book is able to show that unless you are some unusual type of tropical algae, a warming world would be disastrous for you and human civilization. Click to continue »

The Myth of the Oil Crisis: Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming

The Myth of the Oil Crisis: Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming – Review
[...] A deadly myth has newly re-emerged: that oil is running out’, that total production will soon peak and enter inevitable decline. What is the good response to peak oil’ – to attempt energy self-sufficiency, or to take military management of oil currently producing regions before the Chinese or Russians get there? The current great energy prices appear from a long episode of small prices and under-investment, itself the crop of the analysis of global energy relationships in the oil crises of 1973-4 and 1978-80. Contrary to vocal peak oil’ claims, great prices are not due to a lack of resources in the finely ground. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
Earlier this year I widely read The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery. It was an outstanding book full of logical explanations to nearly all the questions I had about the problem of climate change. Now I have only finished Field Notes From a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert. It also is an outstanding book. In fact, I wish I had widely read it first – not because it is the better of the two books, but because it is a better introduction to the subject. Click to continue »