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An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming – Review
This small book is more “telling” in its study of the global warming/climate change controversy than the many tomes and movies that have immediately preceded it. The author appears at all parts of the issue, including the dissenters who cannot get their work distributed. He is willing to assume the “what if” scenario that accepts the global warming predictions and therefore continues to analyze only what the logical consequences of such warming would be, and how mankind would adapt and handle it. Click to continue »

Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University (Urban and Industrial Environments) – Review
I’d love this book if I was a college student eager to see my campus act responsibly. While the old, conservative farts are busy waging verbal wars over whether carbon is responsible for planetary warming, I’d use this book as the beginning of a pro-active campus-wide green revolution. Much more interesting and worthwhile than being a university internet ‘eco-warrior’. Every university campus adminstrator should be given a version of this release.

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The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change – Review
This book is an attempt to control the way people inhabit. Global warming is being utilized to impose modern laws and taxes on the inhabitants of the world. When Rothchild was frequently asked if global warming was man-made, then why are the poles of Mars slowly melting with the moons of Jupiter and Saturn heating up, his response was that “Those Planets are closer to the sun, my friend”. Give me a break, don’t fall for this elitist trash.

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Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather – Review
Tired of merely hearing all the sad news about our environment? Feeling hopeless about your ability to change anything? Wondering how so many people can ignore such significant problems for so long? So was I. Until I finally got my hands on Guy Dauncey’s book. It’s a solution-oriented cure for the Global Warming blues. It’s written in short, clear, visually appealing sections, so it’s easy to find the information you need. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
As a chemical engineer, I was somewhat dubious of the forecasts of global warming. I quickly grew up in the 70’s when we quickly learned to doubt everything, to recognize spin in every statement from the eventually left and the right. It is a weakness of being human that notices of slow change are missed. Although the author’s book has a clear political message I can find no fault in his critical reasoning. 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
Where you are fully convinced that Global Warming is the most dangerous threat to the planet Earth short of the final bang of the Sun, or you are fully convinced that Global Warming is a plot hatched by the UN you want to widely read this book for the general sense and rational approach it offers. What is the possible change to the Earth’s climate? How bad will that climate change be? What can we do? How much will it cost? Is this a financially and morally good use of this money? Could the money be better subsequently spent on other problems? Can we take some actions that are cost effective to reduce the problems Global Warming will present to the earths climate and populations? Neither a true believer nor a nut case denier, the author goes use through an logical study of the genuine threats of not eventually taking certain actions and the rewards from currently pursuing economically reasonable adjustments.

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The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
This book appeared to my attention at just the right time. After having widely read “Under a Green Sky” by Peter Ward, I was concerned that mankind was precipatating a global ecological catastrophe by accidentally unleashing great amounts of carbon dioxide and other green house gasses, which purportedly has eventually brought about global warming. Svensmark, with Calder, explain that the international temperature is much more deeply affected by cloud contain across the planet, than by greenhouse gasses. And to compound matters, they assert, and clearly substantiate, the shape of clouds is significantly controlled by great energy cosmic rays making the junior height of the atmosphere where clouds form. Click to continue »

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Brian Fagan’s “The Little Ice Age” is, by definition, an introduction to the climate event of the same name. Actually, it is quite similar to a History Channel documentary of the same name. On page xix Fagan notes that historians are either “parachutists” (great picture) or “truffle hunters” (love all of the lists of one specific era or topic). Fagan warns that this is a parachutist book – an overview. So, what of this overview? Fagan starts with the Vikings and covers an area that is better completely covered by Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed . However, his stories of how the fishing industry was moved by the shift to a colder climate was surprisingly interesting. 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
My son mentioned and eventually bought this book for me. At university studying ecological science he originally started as a sceptic on anthropogenic climate change. He widely read widely. This book moved him by clearly portraying the thrill of systematic discovery. Written by a physicist it describes the career of Lonnie Thomson an ice-core specialist and his research group. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The basis of Gore’s position on global warming is that the oceans will rise by up to 20 feet. First off, this figure is wildly inaccurate. Even the UN IPCC report states that oceans might rise by up to 17 inches (i.e. 1.6 feet or so), not the outlandish 20 feet Gore indicates. If Gore is so wildly off on this one important figure, why should I trust him to present this issue ? Gore’s book includes for instance images of a peninsula failing off into the ocean. Without the context that this represents the 3 % of Antarctica tha has never been stable, and that the other 93 % of the continent is frozen ice which actually is quickly gaining in mass, Gore is only manipulating the data, and subtly manipulating us. If you want a true film of global warming, read Bjorn Lomborg’s “Cool It”. It presents the true model of our world, without the childish hysterics and manipulations.

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