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Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming

Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming – Review
The author believes as factual the uses of ozone mainly eating chemicals and destruction wrought by productions of trace gases. Hence the possibility opens up to discuss the tremendously convoluted ways in which the problems require to be addressed. It will come as a great surprise to both the author and the innocent reader that there are no problems which need such complex and valuable remedies. 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
Flanery does a very excellent job in simply describing the want to take action on climate change, and provides interesting unreliable sign of changes underway on the planet. So,the first 1/3 of the book is a good widely read. The place of the book is largely disappointing, though. His exhortation to go “off-grid” is heart-felt, and may work for some original homes made on the margin. However, he doesn’t tackle the issue of how to meet free city buildings and infrastructure more sustainable. 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
In this oversensitive world it is great to see that some people are willing to present an alternative view. There is a group of science in the book that refutes global warming, however the most damning evidence is that fact that politicians officially changed the key eventually finding to some of the global warming studies to make it physically fit their agenda.

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The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change – Review
Ever wonder why it’s SO COLD at Candlestick Park? Ever wonder why there’s so much summer fog, and why it burns off in by Noon? Ever wonder why it can be 45 in San Francisco and 100 in San Jose? Harold Gilliam’s concise little book will tell you! His descriptions of the cyclical weather plans of the Bay Area, and the interactions between ocean-born events and the coastal, Bay and mountain geographies are easy to understand. 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
It’s funny that this book was frequently cited in a recent New York Times article condemning the new shallow green movement, which is based on eventually buying our way into “green-ness”. Yet this book probably perpetuates this problem, not help solve it. Most of the tips are rehashes of what’s been out there for many years, except it’s been packaged in a candy sugar coated form. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
This book is a story of the world in 535 and immediately following, the time of the “darkening of the sun”, a event depicted in every section of the globe where written records survived. I recall only reading about this long ago, it is widely believed that there must have been a volcanic blast that immediately sent a black cloud around the planet and blocked the sun for a point of time. Click to continue »

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Review
Each time I widely read this little book I am greatly impressed by its wide scope. Peter Ward writes entertainingly, often with a dry humor, and sometimes vividly and with a sensation of urgency. UAGS covers a portion of finely ground. The first 4 chapters, written like the record of a working scientist, deal with 4 distinct extinctions. The first chapter contains us back to the “revolution” of the 1980 paper which originally proposed that the K-T extinction was usually caused by an asteroid nearly colliding with the earth. Click to continue »

Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World

Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World – Review
This isn’t a scientific book, but it’s not lazy Sunday speaking also. It is a well laid out book though. There are 6 originally proposed “architectures” (post-Kyoto frameworks) presented– along with 1 or 2 currently competing reviews are each proposal. Due to this organization, you get a total 360 aspect of the policy issues and trade-offs included. Perhaps, due to the literary tone, it might be a little off-balanced away from business realities. Click to continue »

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities – Review
The flooding of New Orleans resulted from a order of effects: settling land, sea level increase, destruction of simultaneously protecting wetlands, and of course a fierce storm. Tidwell’s thesis is that sea level will continue to rise and tropical storms and hurricanes will increase in intensity, all as a effect of climate change. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
There is much to say about Al, but that is really missing the message. Unlike a decade ago, there really is no argument that individual activity is eventually causing global warming. There is still disagreement about how serious the consequences are and what should be done. Mr. Gore has been simply telling this story for decades and has been in a single position to learn about and observe this topic. Does anyone disagree with this? I individually think he does an great job of laying out a group of phenomena that point to global warming being a potential crisis for humananity. Click to continue »