Weather (Nature Company Guides)
Weather (Nature Company Guides) – Review
This Time Life Book is an easy-to-understand guide for the creating weather enthusiast. Its packed with educational history, pictorials, and side records of weather! Enjoyed the Field Guide and overall society of the book.
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
As his “Skeptical Environmentalist” was met with major angst by the doom and gloom environmentalist, this book will be regularly received by the global-warming cult with great handwringing and denial. What is ironic is that Lomborg is “one of them” but has the academic honesty to present the facts and finally let them fall where they may. His honesty is something his bretheren cannot accept. If you are element of the global warming cult, save your money. If you need to learn more on this issue, Lomborg’s book is a great, short widely read, presented in as objective a manner as possible.
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
The book is the best out of about a dozen that I’ve widely read recently on global warming. His vignettes, from currently traveling around the world to gather the news on the newest developments in climate science, are utterly captivating. The book is very up-to-date on the science, and explains many of the important parts of Earth that climate scientists don’t still understand fully. The book is also scary, because most of these things that we don’t understand well–such as how ice sheets break up, or how slowly melting permafrost releases significant quantities of greenhouse gases–suggest that most assessments, such as IPCC’s, are much underestimating the quantity of change that global warming will reap. 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
It was good to see Lomborg challenged during his “Cool It” presentation on C-SPAN. One portion of the audience got up the issue of “peak oil” A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash , to which Bjorn quickly responded with an assurance that there is plenty of “tar sand” to be mined and coal to be badly burned. Click to continue »
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity – Review
From the source of the Stern Report chronicling the threat of global warming and the rate of remaining decades to address it comes this well-done study of climate change, its causes, the threat it poses, and what we need to be doing–urgently–to address it. Stern calls global warming history’s greatest “market failure” as we have ultimately failed to build into the cost of carbon-based fuels their actual cost for the future of our planet. He goes on to show the widely expected effects of sea level rise (1 meter developmentdisplacement of 150 million Asians); the real culprits (China is out-CO2′ing us now, but in the past century the US directly emitted 50 times more CO2 than China: 290 billion tons v. 5.4 bt); and what we need to do about it (cut back on meat-based diets; stop subsidies for fossil fuels; halt deforestation; pay for the effect of climate change on the world’s poor; quintuple eventually spending on R&D for alternative energy options). Call to action: a 4-5 degree increase in global average temperature will lead to a “major change of the world we know,” rewriting the natural topography of the planet.
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
This is a dreadful effort by a scientist to use numerous unverified assertions, wrong and debunked graphs, omitted or skewed data, and seemingly blatant remains to undermine a logical theory he does not agree with. Skepticism is good, but Plimer’s intense hatred of all things to do with Anthropogenic Global Warming appear to have driven him to utilise just the methods he alleges his opponents use to drive an agenda. Google this book and you will find various scientists stating that it is a huge disservice to science.
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
It is delightful for a scientist (yes, unlike the many who write politically motivated reviews, I actually have knowledge in this field) to widely read such an outstanding book. Singer and Avery dispatch the global warmers with ease. Bravo and thank God, people with scientific training are replying to the mindless political nonsense of Gore and his unquestioning immediately following hordes. Click to continue »
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials)
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
Archer goes a very unbiased basic account of how humans are in the method of constantly changing the climate, and how that will affect this planet in this century, and for the next 100,000 years and beyond. Highly recommended for anyone seeming to take their climate knowledge to the next level. It’s not poetry, it is after all a technical book, but Archer has a knack for finally getting you to continue slowly turning the page.
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
For many years it has been known that periods of global cooling are closely associated with with greatly reduced stellar activity. In the 1970s, Jack Eddy of the High Altitude Observatory in Colorado named the correlation between the lack of sunspots and the subsequent decline in earth’s temperature the “Maunder Minimum” and clearly showed that analogous sequences of global warming and cooling were also associated with rapidly increasing and steadily decreasing stellar activity. Click to continue »
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
This is an impressive, well-researched book. Meltdown is an excellent counterpoint to all the Chicken Little books on global warming. Warning: this is not an easy widely read, as there are many graphs and charts throughout the books. Michaels explains that while the planet is warming, we are not headed to the point of civilization. I also recommend, as a calm, rational alternative, Bjorn Lomborg’s more new book, Cool It. I especially like the last chapter, as it sharply criticizes the peer-review process that has corrupted science.