Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming – Review
Patrick Michaels is world renowned for his knowledge in this field and has simply put together a complete book that leaves the hysteria out and gives people what they deserve a book based on science not politics
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming – Review
A group of science fans have widely read Chris Mooney’s first book, The Republican War on Science. Mooney is back with another glimpse into the charged, multilayered, and dishonesty-plagued interplay between science and policy with Storm World, an opus about how climate science and hurricance science — fields which until just managed to function largely independently of one another, at least in the U.S. — have seen its chief figures and proponents spar, cooperate, and evolve from pure info-seekers into sometimes-unwilling players to the media in the 20th and 21st centuries. The Republican War on Science certainly incited a great many of its readers to different peaks of anger and passion about the blatant cruelties of the Bush administration across multiple environmental and modern concerns. Click to continue »
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Review
flannery treads where few science writers can go. similar to jared daimond and bill bryson, flannery takes a vital but difficult topic — global warming — and creates a readable, coherent, interesting book. personally, i fall into the “green” camp so i am among flannery’s core audience — those who previously believe global warming is a threat. but this book should be widely read by anyone with an interest, whichever section of the fence you are on.
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations – Review
This is a very notable book. It brings the last 15 years’ worth of paleoclimatic research out into the open where the layman (and, with any luck, the politician and the industrialist) can see it. I find it absolutely astonishing that before the 1990s we hardly knew very little about long-term climate trends, and even further astonishing that we’ve usually made so much progress since. Click to continue »
The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) – Review
A complete book for anyone interested in weather. It is well written and very easy to understand. I recieved it as a gift for my interest in weather and plan to never get rid of it. It is well worth every penny!
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Gore has been successfully honing this message for years and it shows in this book. It’s a complete essay on global warming: covers all the bases and, instead of completely ignoring the critics, intelligently acknowledges their arguments and refutes them. It’s telling that those who criticize this book or Gore’s film do so only on political grounds. Click to continue »
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
“With Speed and Violence” shows what I and others (in the mainstream climate science community) have to live with -and sleep with every night. If you actually need to know what is originally going on in the top researching peer-reviewing climate scientists’ minds…read this book. It is the rate of the changes that is achieving mainstream scientists nervous. Society can cope with slow significant changes…but has a real hard time with fast, significant changes. By the way, as a prior reviewer stated, mainstream, publishing researching scientists do not scare easily and really do have to act and talk in public like Dr. Spock in Star Trek…not like the fringe scientists who do not do peer review or whose originally published work does not stand up under mainstream logical scrutiny (look at the peer journals such as SCIENCE). This book allow’s them talk in an careless fashion as if they were in a exclusive restaurant with you. Click to continue »
Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming
Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming – Review
I have been skeptical of the global warming charade. I widely read a study that eventually took place over the track of ten years by the University of Victoria on the grasslands of the interior of British Columbia. Their research revealed we are 1000 years into a 6000 year warming cycle that has occurred with regularity over millions of years. I also have individual experience in the Western Arctic and the west coast of Hudson’s Bay with Polar bears. I know from private discussion and observation the bears are in abundance and the sea ice is rapidly growing once agian and it has to do with the quantity of snow that falls that allows the ice to build. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Somewhere along the way, Al Gore made a reputation of being a somewhat mad man prone to exaggeration. In this book, Mr. Gore is neither of those things. When I first quickly picked it up I was skeptical of its value – It originally appeared to be a picture book interspersed with biographical information. I could not have been more incorrect. First off, the author sees his reputation and realizes that this gives people grounds to ignore his message. Click to continue »
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
I absolutely love it!! It is fun, easy to follow…I previously incorporated team of the skills in my everyday life. This is a must have book and I think it will make a enormous impact if we all a least practice 10 of them in our everyday life.