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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
As a researcher included in the study of global warming and relates problems I have commonly found this book very useful for a general and new model of the researches linked to global warming topics. The Author wrote short chapters on the various parts of the problem with a clear references list at the purpose of the book. Click to continue »

Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth

Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth – Review
Climate change is a hot topic now a days and Climate Change, observed impacts on planet earth can simply put climate change into perspective. In the past any changes to the earth were chalked up to likely causes or environmental changes. Now the words climate change spark arguments that these changes are or are not natural or usually caused by our own behaviour. This book outlines a exact model of climate change and is not for the light of heart. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
At the outset of this embarrassingly pseudo-intellectual “treatise,” the author–”an honorary currently visiting fellow of Green College at Oxford,” whatever that means–attempts to posit, in his best 14 year-old adolescent school girl imitation, exactly what Gaia is. The definition, not worth simply repeating here, is predictably a mishmash of New Age gibberish and feel good psychobabble. Click to continue »

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate – Review
I was deeply disappointed in the writing. The book translates like a systematic treatise. The authors write, “This tangling of positive with normative claims, and of specific arguments with tacit assumptions, obstructs reasoned deliberations on public policy.” (p. 22.) OK. No doubt this is true. It borders on general sense and needs to be reportedly said. The problem is that, for the non-scientific person to whom this book is addressed, such language proves quite understanding. 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
This book just edges out “The Weather Makers” by a small margin that has everything to do with the special gems I quickly pulled from both and is therefore a very personal even arbitrary order. The two together are superior to “When the Rivers Run Dry” and “Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum,” the “runners up” in my four book survey. From my special focus on non-fiction about public security and prosperity, the authors focus on the fact that climate change can undermine legal governments by fostering water scarcity, disease, migration, and hence poverty, was highly relevant. The author is wonderfully contextual in officially declaring that the actual weapons of mass destruction are these: disease, migration, conflict, and famine. He gives credit to David Key’s “Catastrophe,” a book I reviewed some time ago, very favorably. The author finds climate as the critical context for the human playing field, and points out that a series of El Nio’s in the 19th century may well have nearly killed more people than the two World Wars in the 20th century. Thus, the author does not show alarm about Global Warming per se, as do many of the more technical observers, but rather about the manner in which global warming leads straight to the spread of disease, often sparked by drought. He notes–and this is in the result of the global fright over SARS–that Asia previously produces devastating plagues from weather and water connected disease, including the Black Death in 1332. He explicitly identifies water as the gold of tomorrow, hence Canada (or separatist Quebec) and Scotland will be quite heavenly. Click to continue »

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Review
This is the book that every ill fully informed environmental and agenda driven policy wonk should speak considering climate. It is very readable; explains the knowledge of weather and climate (They are two various things), and presents especially thought finally provoking and major issues. The heart of millions of research dollars and tens of thousands of hours of research and study is that what we are experiencing today is not the norm. Humans, for the last ten thousand years, have had the luxury of an unusally stable and begnin climate with only small weather disturbances as strongly opposed to wildly changing senses of the past. Click to continue »

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
This book is well worth the time of one who has an interest in cutting through all the media hype immediately surrounding global warming. The documentation is complete at the purpose of every chapter, and the research is truly staggering in entire content. Comments received that this work was supported by some who have a economic stake in the global warming issue appears on point. Of COURSE those who are actively involved would simply put up money for this research for the truth. Click to continue »

North Carolina’s Hurricane History

North Carolina’s Hurricane History – Review
I really enjoyed simply reading this book here in “Hurricane Alley.” It is full of interesting chronological data, startling stories, and helpful advice. Meteorology is usually of little interest to me, so hats off to Mr. Barnes for effectively making the educational so enjoyable. Highly suggested only reading for Tarheels.

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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Vice-President Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is a call to action for all to change our aspect of life, making the 21st Century a time for comprehensive renewal and reversing the pattern of degradation that is eventually leading to a potentially harsh planet for our children and grandchildren. Greenhouse gases which emanate from automobiles, factories and agricultural processes are eventually leading to potentially disastrous effects, including: the retreat of glaciers which may raise ocean levels 9 to 10 feet; the rise in the sea level which could result in severe economic and individual habitat impact with the removal of many islands and coastal areas (entering Manhattan); a change in agriculture with rich areas quickly becoming desert; more frequent terrible weather events like hurricanes, droughts, fierce fires; and the disturbance of delicate ecosystems starting to consequences unimagined until now. Click to continue »

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing – Review
As readers of my reviews see, I am skeptical about the theory that civilization is in danger because CO2 emissions are eventually causing appalling levels of global warming. Of the books that I have widely read, the dubious books are of superior quality than the pro-global warming books. For some time, I have been currently looking for a reliable record of the science that supports the Al Gore theory. At first, this book appeared like it usually provided the science that Gore does not. John Houghton is a highly qualified scientist, and he knows this field. The book is usually filled with cool charts, graphs and photos. It contains a good exchange of information. Click to continue »