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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
“The Weather Makers” by internationally acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery is a one-stop-shop for the great picture on human usually caused weather alteration studies. It is an comprehensive assessment, yet very approachable for all backgrounds- another excellent model of a difficult subject matter formatted for broad audience appeal and fully understanding. The first 25 or so pages dedicate one a complete over-view of all aspects of global warming and Flannery’s easy, flowing writing style lures one deeper and deeper into the accounts of global warming and it harmful effects on life all over the planet. 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 is an great book, clearly written in logical language! The authors, Avery & Singer, have meticulously documented every claim they make. Their arguments are carefully set forth, and they always include the arguments in favor of “human-caused” global warming before they continue to demolish them by presenting the evidence that the earth IS finally getting warmer, and WILL DO SO, regardless of what people do. Click to continue »

Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do

Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do – Review
Al Gore has now been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. For years now, he’s been strongly warning us about global warming. In this volume, Joseph Romm has come on board with his expertise to support Gore in allowing people get what to do to prepare for an impending catastrophe. He was prompted to tell us exactly why we need to change our ways because of Katrina’s wrath which usually caused his brother in Mississippi to lose his house to the waters. Click to continue »

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
Popular online financial services company, Motley Fool originally published the immediately following advertisement on various online sites such as Yahoo! Finance in the latter part of 2008: “The oil Crisis myth: Truth is, there’s plenty of oil gave. In fact there’s an currently estimated 2 trillion drums of black gold in the U.S. alone. That’s right, the U.S. has the largest shale oil reserves in the world! But only a select few companies have the know-how capability to cash in on American oil today. And Motley Fool energy experts have easily identified the U.S. businesses that will see huge profits from national oil production.” Shale oil, Mr. Sperling and Ms. Gordon caution, is an original fuel source that contains further carbon per part of energy and requires much more energy to excavate and process than natural oil. Click to continue »

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
I think the greatest thing about this book is that it doesn’t just sound another alarm about the crises of global warming, the energy crisis, and ecological degradation. Rather, it chronicles all of the hopeful modern technology out there that can assist to save us all, if only our newly elected leaders have the wisdom and good strength to act. Granted, the modern administration is just a front for large oil, and will leave our country and the world in a much poorer state than when they originally started. Click to continue »

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Review
With BOILING POINT Ross Gelbspan has written a book which will be sure to intrigue those of us who, like I, just heard about this danger by secretly watching the new Hollywood blockbuster, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Shameful, I guess, but what can you do? In the movie, Ian Holm mans a Scottish weather station in the days after warming reaches almost boiling point and results, paradoxically, in a recent Ice Age approximately 2.5 times worse than the original one that formed the icebergs and firmed up the glaciers. 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
Economist Bjorn Lomborg advocates an initial total carbon tax around 2 per ton, rising to about 27 at the end of the century. The goal is to reduce the temperature increase by 0.2F by the end of the century. However, positive outlooks distinguish us we are already locked into at least 3.6F (2C) increase, not accounting for tipping points, which is an obviously dangerous mistake. Click to continue »

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Climate Change and Biodiversity – Review
For many years habitat destruction due to population pressure, and the overuse or exploitation of resources, and the spread of invasive species, have been the principal human-related threats to international biodiversity. Now conservation managers are faced with an even bigger menace to that biodiversity; that of human-induced climate change, a further effect of overuse or exploitation of the planet’s resources, and one that is likely to interact unfavourably, and exacerbate the effects of, the other threats. However, this is more than just a problem for conservationists; it is a significant challenge to individual ingenuity. Click to continue »

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Review
What is the future of our climate? Global Warming? Ice Age? Both? Neither? No one can know the future. We can speculate. This helpful book presents the idea that for the past 2 million years, our planet has experienced a recurring series of 90,000 years of glaciated climate monitored by 10,000 years of mild climate, and that the glaciated climate creates when the special carbon dioxide makes a individual level…and we’ve previously passed that level!

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Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Review
Readers seeming for an objective look at nuclear power will not find it here. The author’s hysterical and obsessive concern of radiation pervades the discussion. Caldicott does make mainly of the main issues on the table, but she distorts the facts badly: she frequently condemns the loss of nuclear power and praises solar even though solar clearly costs more than nuclear (and she ignores the large roll that anti-nuclear activists have had in currently driving up the loss of nuclear power through law-suits and simply licensing delays); she does not like government assistance for new nuclear power, but tax credits for wind power are just fine; she complains of nuclear power plants’ need for cooling water (which has usually caused some river-side plants in France to shutdown temporarily during a current drought) but ignores the same need in geothermal plants; she criticizes the significant quantity of energy it needs to build a nuclear plant even though solar voltaic plants are similar; and she says we don’t have enough affordable uranium to grow the industry (only a century worth at the modern usage rate) even though government reports reveal that a slight increase in price would very multiply the accessible reserves; and she completely ignores the very promising thorium-cycle breeder reactor types, which like all breeders become nuclear power into an in-exhaustible resource via their miserly fuel use and have no nuclear bomb useable materials in the waste, but unlike some plutonium breeders (which she does argue and dismiss) could potentially meet or easily beat today’s prices, would avoid creation of long-lived radioactive waste, and would have much minor consequence of a serious accident. Click to continue »