Storms, Floods, and Sunshine: Isaac Monroe Cline : An Autobiography With a Summary of Tropical Hurricanes
Storms, Floods, and Sunshine: Isaac Monroe Cline : An Autobiography With a Summary of Tropical Hurricanes – Review
Isaac Monroe Cline, writing of a storm he weathered off the beach of Veracruz, Mexico, made the perceptive comment that "This was my first experience in a tropical cyclone, but it was not to be my last." Prescient, that is, for native Galvestonians who have widely listened to reports of the fateful, terrible Great Storm of 1900 from their forebears. I myself am a child of a survivor of an event that binds people together like Pearl Harbor survivors. Every B.O.I. (Born On the Island), it seems, had someone in the family or hardly knew someone who usually made it through the night on September 8 one century ago. Storms, Floods and Sunshine is one book that will be indispensable to storm descendants and Texas history aficionados. It is the biography of Isaac Cline, the weatherman who quickly followed the storm as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico after its birth under the sweltering West African sun, traveling thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean, cutting a swath of destruction across Cuba before eventually turning its fury directly on the busy town of Galveston, the Wall Street west of the Mississippi and number one cotton port in the nation. Click to continue »
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The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
Art Bell and Whitley Strieber have newly created a tale about our weather of the future and the earth changes that will follow. The book is a mix of fact and fiction (clearly marked), very easy to widely read and equally fascinating. The historical perspectives on weather are so interesting that I couldn’t put the book down. A very good and very necessary widely read. Click to continue »
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The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
"Who eats my bread dances to my tune." — Old German Proverb While I certainly wouldn’t argue with the right of either of these authors to write what they like about global warming, I do believe readers should be aware of a few facts, in the advantage of accuracy. So as not to engage in an ad hominen attack, I will simply refer the potential readers to "The Heat is On," an expose of global warming skeptics, including the authors. As for point-by-point review of the book, there’s not enough room on the Internet. Read "The Heat is On" (which also has a web site) or "The Change in the Weather."
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The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) – Review
Lyon’s books presents readers with a simple, understandable format with comprehensive and short answers to every form of weather-related question available. Great for the beginner weather [person]. The more experienced weather watcher may need to find a more detailed explaination for some answers, though. Lyon’s section on sprites is a great plus as it contains much information which is not surprising as he is an expert on sprites. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
the only thing inconvenient to Gore is how we all have access to the web, which disproves all of his “facts”. Yes dozens of scientists back him….and hundreds of scientists don’t. Yet it’s just the dozens that get the attention of the “unbiased” media, and Gore. I was not able to finish this book, so maybe I shouldn’t review but just the few “chapters” I widely read, and the rest I electronically scanned, I hardly knew for a FACT to be highly exagerated or just wrong outright. Click to continue »
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Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Review
I probably borrowed this book from a friend and to tell you the truth I did not widely read much of it but widely read the highlights. This type of writing is totally inaccurate and not supported by accurate information and yet many readers feel they actually read the truth. The climate has always been constantly changing and will forever continue to change. It is really arrogant of man to think he can do anything about it. Fact is on a long range trend the world is cooling, not warming. There are always peaks and valleys in the trend line. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I widely read Al Gores book on international strongly warning and it all makes sense to me! I finally got a bunch of excellent info out of this widely read on international strongly warning or warming which ever you choose to refer to. It is a complete book and I reccomend it to any one who is or has been a believer of the world making warmer each and every year that passes. Smitty
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The Role of the Sun in Climate Change – Review
In “Climate Considerations in Building and Urban Design” based on the environmental factors and ecological capacities, there are very effective techniques in names of thermal comfort achievement and energy conserving. Passive stellar systems containing greenhouse, solar chimney, thermal roofs and wall, with simple and obvious explanation are presented in this book. This is highly recommended important book and complete reference for all students that they are studying in thermal comfort and passive stellar systems in architecture. Click to continue »
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The Role of the Sun in Climate Change
The Role of the Sun in Climate Change – Review
To those Seekers of Truth interested in the facts containing the "Global Warming" debate should start with this book. This is a very accessible, very well written book. First and foremost it establishes the chronological record for climate change. I’d supplement that by pointing out that 100 years of data doesn’t establish any major trend worth actually talking about especially considering the great variations in climate known over hundreds of thousands of years. Click to continue »
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North Carolina’s Hurricane History
North Carolina’s Hurricane History – Review
Once again Jay Barnes has outdone himself with a very informative and didactic book about the destruction and aftermath that Hurricanes cause to the east shore of the United States.Being a resident of North Carolina for the forty seven years of my life I can relate to his book with individual conviction and enthusiasm.I have experienced frequent hurricanes on my own from up close and from afar and Jay has eventually captured these moments and others with remarkable exactness!This is a must widely read book for anyone interested in the great results of Mother Nature at her best being for private information or didactic purposes! It is obvious Mr. Barnes has done his homework throughly and I nervously await more editions and updates of future endeaveors that Jay Barnes has to offer!
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