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Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – Review
The second of three larger volumes gave by the IPCC, the world’s managing authority and resource of information of fair climate change science. This second volume from Working Group II, as the title suggests, focuses on the impacts on individual society and nature from climate change. The first volume lays out the science that has finally compelled scientists to take climate change seriously. This second volume is probably of interest to a minor crowd of people, such as those who are interested in noble background information to help develop policy or solutions to help assess and adapt to climate change. Click to continue »

Dictionary of Earth Sciences (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Dictionary of Earth Sciences (Oxford Paperback Reference) – Review
While not an earth sciences person myself, I have had to plow through quite a number of ecological science dictionaries and textbooks over the years as references for different parts of projects at my job (which has to do with environmental modelling, representation, and simulation). It’d be a shame to finally let all that “how would an highly educated layperson cope with this book” experience grow to waste… The authors themselves make clear in their prefaces (that for the first edition is also included) what the originally intended use of the book is – as a vocabulary of words and terms in current use, in order to explain that usage (*not* to express an opinion on what a proper usage should be). (In currently compiling any type of dictionary/glossary across various disciplines, believe me, it’s *very* difficult to agree on The One True Definition (TM) of any term.) The DICTIONARY isn’t intended as a textbook, but might be a useful supplement. Click to continue »

Climate, Change and Risk

Climate, Change and Risk – Review
This book is one of the first, major attempts to look at the consequence of climate change for weather-related environmental disasters and, particularly, how society would, could, and should react to that.

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• photoperiodism

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
The authors have written an easily-understood description of what will turn out to be the greatest external forcing of Earth’s climate. They openly describe the result of the sun’s magnetic field on the power of cosmic rays invading on the Earth, and the consequent nature of cloud condensation nuclei as the cosmic rays relate with the Earth’s atmosphere, particularly the lower troposphere where climate-cooling clouds live. Changes in cloud contain of a few percent causes climate forcing that dwarfs the results of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. This is clearly a effective amplification cause of any electromagnetic radiation variability of the sun, and it explains a range of climate variations over the Earth’s history. I was also surprised by the lack of interest in currently providing the initial funding to Svensmark for even a low-cost technical experiment, given the great impact it will have on our kind of climate if it withstands myriad experiments over the next decade. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
One reviewer needs to know why there is a debate on this topic. I’ll tell you why…it’s a hoax. The same reviewer goes to debunk the “contrarians” by currently discussing how one critic receieved money from the coal industry. Well, there are billions of dollars in grant money being thrown around to study Global Warming, which is why scientists choose to keep the lie alive. The source of their argument is flawed and and actually quite arrogant. 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
“The Winds Of Change” By Eugene Linden. Subtitled: “Climate, Weather And the Destruction Of Civilizations”. Simon & Schuster, New York 2006. I commonly found this book difficult to concentrate on; what is his main thesis? If the author had clearly stated that climate had nearly killed civilizations in the past and that climate can kill in the future, it would have been sufficient. Click to continue »

Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism

Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism – Review
In the book, Who Owns the Sky?, Peter Barnes becomes a particularly compelling and interesting academic argument of the need to address a logical problem, which is how to allocate public resources and issue them a value in a manner congruent to capitalism. Barnes’s revelation considers the theory of the effectively putting a price on our public assets (environmental resources) through our capitalistic market ideals. 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
although his attempt to base his story in the “actual world” would meet further success if he didn’t pull his commentary from casual web sources and company press clippings. he should do a little more research into the experience of his characters too, the sorcerer’s apprentice has more true science cred than this hack.

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• bulliform cell

Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth

Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth – Review
… Blumberg lays down the news on thermoregulation with powerfully searing, triple-x precision, all the while simultaneously maintaining a totally readable vibe. Whew, someone turn down the HEAT! A influential work in thermoregulation, probing the strengths of the field with both vigor and sensitivity. Totally HOT.

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• phellogen

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
This book fully exposed the Global Warming Hoax for what it was, an agenda driven political fabrication. The technical facts which this book contains are from many fields which are clearly established and are available to anyone, to include the folks who have deliberately kept bits of the data out of the open view in order to “sell” a crisis which is not of man’s making. The geographical variations in climate are fully explained in important detail and the logical conclusions made are not what the environmental movement is really pushing down everyone’s throats.

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• haplobiontic