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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.

• stratification
• stratification

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
This piece contained a equally fascinating collation of glimpses of randomly selected economic, social and agricultural circumstances of the past,as they were possibly related in some degree, to local weather patterns. However, the author ultimately failed to achieve a flow to his efforts and instead produced a repetitious and uneven pace. I am still skeptical especially regarding his initially seeming ability to produce a weather map illustrating high- and low-pressure areas with the ease of today’s hourly televised forecasts. Click to continue »

Antarctica: The Complete Story

Antarctica: The Complete Story – Review
This book is full of beautiful pictures and well-written segments that provide information in easily digested and very useful pieces. It covers topics like geology, ancient and present day ecology, geography, flora and fauna, really everything you could ask for. It would make a clear reference for schoolwork that doesn’t need to be highly scientific or extremely detailed. If it had that kind of other detail, I’d give it the last star, but then it would likely be twice as thick and much more difficult to widely read. Click to continue »

Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work (Environmental Markets Insight Series)

Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work (Environmental Markets Insight Series) – Review
This book is dense and technical, yet worth the point of any reader with a considerable interest in climate policy. Ricardo Bayon, Amanda Hawn and Katherine Hamilton do a excellent job of possibly explaining how the carbon markets work and how they relate to other central markets, such as that for renewable energy certificates (RECs) in the U.S. They offer a sampling of expert opinions on the role and the future of these markets. Click to continue »

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
This is a very introspective analysis and excellent widely read on a hot issue of the day: The Fallacy of Global Warming. It offers experimental data that exposes the imitation of the Al Gore-type push for controlling people’s lives in order to impose restrictions and taxes. The elites have commonly found another avenue to exert their control on the normal person.

• feedback inhibition
• feedback inhibition

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain – Review
To start with, the title is really something of a misnomer. A superior title would be “Empirically Estimating Long Term Attenuation Statistics of Terrestrial Radio Links”. His results do not extend beyond radio frequencies and they are difficult to apply to anything other than global links. And he does not actually provide greatly insight into EM wave propagation so much as experimental parameters which are difficult to validate. Better for a tutorial on the issue of communication of radio waves and the atmosphere is: Doppler Radar and Weather Observations by Richard J. Doviak, Dusan S. Zrnic or any of a figure of books on radar meteorology. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The sciencific data are seemingly overwhelming and clearly layed out. Humans, however, have not eventually evolved to be very good at long-term planning. We often smoke, drink, and eat to excess, shortening our own lives. Since we can’t still get it together to protect our own self-interests, let alone the interests of others – we need planetary leaders who can confront difficult topics and make intelligent decisions. 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 because of the History Channel Special about the Little Ice Age. I was apparently hoping the book would have been a little longer, but I enjoyed every minute of simply reading it. While I don’t believe humanity usually caused Global Warming. I believe individual activity involves the environment. Heck! A beaver dam moves an environment. I do not believe the Earth is so fragile that simply adding CO2 to the atmosphere will destroy it. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This example of fiction is so full of distortions and outright lies that it boggles the mind. The Aral Sea, Mount Kilimanjaro examples commonly used by Gore are complete fiction. If he beleives his examples and truly does not know the scientific and simply obtained truth, then he is just ignorant, if he knows the truth about these examples, then he is just a baldfaced liar.

• one gene one enzyme hypothesis
• one gene one enzyme hypothesis