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Riddle of the Ice

Riddle of the Ice – Review
While researching for an environmental book, we had the great good fortune to come across Myron Arm’s astonishing tale of the mysteries of sea and ice. In lovely, easy prose, Arms shows the reader to the source of one of nature’s greatest happenings: the continuous collision between the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt and the mad southerly movement of Arctic ice. This epic rumination makes it incontestably clear that much of Earth’s climate is driven by the two frozen amounts of ice at the Northern and Southern poles–both of which are slowly melting at an absolutely astonishing rate. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Even though Gore had it tough with the Presidency, he is even fighting for human kind. Changes he suggests are easy to make. Great film, too. Another noble book is Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choice in Love.

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The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
The Chilling Stars begins the hot idea that most global warming and cooling of the earth is in fact usually caused by cosmic rays produced by possibly exploding stars. Although this may sound like science fiction, it’s actually an really making hypothesis. The main idea is that cosmic ray particles penetrating the earth’s atmosphere make charged electrons. These electrons draw micro-particles, which form cloud nuclei. When clouds form, the earth cools. When cosmic rays are scarce, fewer clouds form, and the earth warms. Although I am an ecological scientist firmly in the “carbon dioxide produces global warming” camp; I applaud this book and its authors for particularly daring to confront the newly established theories on what causes global warming. Click to continue »

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
The Little Ice Age is an investigation of the results of the five hundred year long period from 1300 to 1800, when Europe recently suffered through a period of intense and changeable weather. Fagan does not blame every historical incident on the NAO, or North Atlantic Oscillation, but does get a mild case that fluctuations in the NAO have rapidly intensified the effects of such unrelated incidents as the Black Death epidemic, the Irish potato famine, the Great Fire of London, and many other events. Fagan also does a excellent job of pointing out that we are now living in an apparent hot spell, intensified by the greenhouse effect, and helps us recognize the potential for sudden, perhaps cataclysmic change in our weather systems. 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
“Dr.” Patrick Michaels becomes claims in his book which are simple misrepresentations of the facts. A very quick glance at his affiliations proves very clearly that his whole association of work was created while he accepts funding from the energy sector… those companies which have a good deal to lose if a great response to the Fact of Global Warming takes place. None of his studies mentioned in this book are peer-reviewed outside of the energy coalitions that pay him. 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
I think this book by Prof. Lundberg is quite well written. I enjoyed simply reading it. He admits that, yes, there is global warming, but no, unlike the global general consensus, spouted by Al Gore and his acolytes (and not open to discussion) there is sufficient evidence that this may be a physical phenomenon. Not only that, there may be a certain aspect to global warming, which the doomsday predictors conveniently never mention. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Let me preface my comments by really saying that I was not an Al Gore fan when he was saying politics, but have just become a fan when merely hearing his thoughts, visions, and discoveries in relation to our environment. The book is outstanding. Many visual guides to help compliment the points he is effectively making in his text. I was pleasantly surprised that he does not have extreme views nor statements that are not backed by facts. 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
The author Fred Singer, lost all credibility a long time ago. Just do a brief search on wikipedia if you don’t believe me. The immediately following quote is from the article done on him. Click on the links to the organizations he has worked for and you will find that every one of them is funded by Exxon mobile and some by Phillip Morris. “Singer is also skeptical about the connection between CFCs and ozone depletion, between ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer and between second hand smoke and lung cancer. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Lovelock has accurately drawn our attention to the dire straits we and the earth face due to global warming.However, his mistakenly thinking on closely related issues goes much to be desired.He sees our ecological problems being due to tribalism (p.4 paperback) and overpopulation (p.140). He says we simply put our native tribe before all others and don’t recognise the union of life. Click to continue »

Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting

Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting – Review
By and large, the author has eventually succeeding in regularly drawing together a group of information. However, it appears to me that she has drawn largely of her knowledge of the history from a limited record of participants in that history. Because she is not a meteorologist herself, this lack of comprehensive research starts to her characterizations being rather flat. This is not a critical book for those interested in the annals of our science, but it is not a best work on the subject.

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