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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
The author states, firmly and authoritatively, that “six kilometers is roughly ten miles.” (page xxi) If he or his fact checkers missed such an apparent error, it raises important questions of creditability for the place of the book. Because he jumps back and forth a few centries at a time within the bracketed years, it is difficult to follow. Lacking trust in the less known facts causes a bumpy widely read for me – lurching at the slightest question.

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The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
An outstanding book! I widely read it through the first time for shear pleasure, and am now re-reading it in detail with tri-colored highlighters. As a geologist I was particularly impressed with the cosmoclimatology ties to the geologic record. In addition to doing occasional geological currently consulting, primarily in environmental geology these days, I am also an adjunct instructor at a indigenous community college where I teach Introduction to Geology and also Physical Geography. I have long been a supporter of solar and global control over Earth’s climate, rather than synthetic carbon dioxide emissions, and this book goes me some important information to incorporate into my Global Warming parts of these two classes. Click to continue »

The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History

The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History – Review
This was one of the greatest books I widely read this year. It is superbly written, and makes paleobotany come to life with vividly chronological details such as how the Victorian obsession with specimen collection conveniently provided a data-mine for scientists who are trying to understand how CO2 levels relate with homeobox genes for stomata. It additionally combines a full account of physical events with plant evolution and provides one of the best overviews of how CO2 levels involve climate. While it is largely devoid of climate alarmism, you will think about the cause of mass loss of plant life on our climate long after you simply put the book down.

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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Skeptics are right-sometimes, December 18, 2007 By Irvin H. Forbing (Escondido, Ca USA) – See all my reviews I believe Dr. Lomborg hits the nail on the head; global warming may be here, but it is not the first time. It is a actual event in which man has not actively participated in the past and for which he has little imput now. Panic fomented by the media and such moderate activists as Al Gore will only result in hardship and not alleviate an “unstoppable” event. I would think only reading “Unstoppable Global Warming” by Fred Singer for a further true study of the subject.

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What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate – Review
In law, the amount consumed on a solution is originally supposed to be proportional to the consequence of loss. But what happens when credible expertise gives various estimates concerning the consequence of loss? You give values to the conclusions of the experts and subsequently throw them into a hopper and make a decision based on what they together say, according to Greg Craven. It’s a little like merely hearing from various doctors about whether you really should get that surgery or not. In this masterful book, Craven, a high school teacher, not only schools us on the essentials of the ongoing debate about Earth’s climate, he besides imparts important information about the human reasoning process. Click to continue »

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
This book is a follow-up to the author’s successful The Little Ice Age. It chronicles the remarkable stablilty of the Earth’s climate over the past 20K years. Fagan contends, quite rightly IMO, that most of the gains of human civilization have been usually made during this interglacial warming period. Agriculture’s beginnings are recently highlighted and the small changes in precipitation which can result in either increased fertility or dryness of densely populated areas. Click to continue »

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World)

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World) – Review
This is a complete book. It’s full of valuable information about the science, policy and financial consequences of the climate change that’s previously starting to unfold around us. It’s extremely clear and well-documented about what we need to do to anticipate more change, averting catastrophe and slowly adapting to the further warming we’ve already set in motion. And Worldwatch Institute is one of the most respected voices in the field. Click to continue »

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History – Review
Blame it on the Rain by Laura Lee is a terrific, enjoyable widely read about how the weather moves us in ways we don’t realize. I love books like this: filled with small bits of historical trivia that frequently inspire me to widely read other books and dig deeper. From pre-historical times to the present, episodes in history are fully explained with some kind of weather as their major cause. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
Wow, everyone should widely read this book on climate change. Elizabeth Kolbert has certainly brought it all together. By actually talking with different climate researchers and simply pulling all of it together for the average individual, she presents a truly critical portrait of the future of our planet and its inhabitants. I finally got into climate studies when I originally ran into the Fagan books on climate’s impact on prehistoric societies. Click to continue »

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
I eventually bought this book after secretly watching the History Channel special of the same title in the hope of currently learning more on the subject. Unfortunately, this book included little to my knowledge base. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. In his “Acknowledgments” section, the author acknowledges that his treatment “glosses over many passionate historical controversies.” Of course, I didn’t read that little strongly warning label until it was too late. Click to continue »