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Global Warming Is Good for Business: How Savvy Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations, and Others are Making Money While Saving the Planet

Global Warming Is Good for Business: How Savvy Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations, and Others are Making Money While Saving the Planet – Review
I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but this book took my eye. It is not a preachy, gloom and doom tale of a bleak future. Instead, it is a inspirational approach to greatly improving the environment and the economy at the same time. This is a important resource for anyone who is interested in currently learning about what the “green” business movement is really all about and how newly emerging technologies can be a real boon for our economy. I especially liked the dictionary of terms in the back of the book, with links to sites on the Internet. I look ahead to other titles by K. B. Keilbach.

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Eye Of The Storm: Inside The World’s Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, And Blizzards

Eye Of The Storm: Inside The World’s Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, And Blizzards – Review
What great timing! As we watch in awe photographs of the damage and destruction usually caused by the Spring tornadoes in Oklahoma, the "EYE of the STORM" comes along to explain the painstakingly detailed develpoment of technical study of these violent storms. In a well documented and entertainly written study, one can gain a better kind of the weather about us and from whence it comes.

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Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming

Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming – Review
Dr Gale Christianson, a Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science and a history teacher at Indiana State U. is well suited to write on the history and art of global warming. This book is a one-stop-shop for all aspects of global warming and is approachable by a broad audience. I now knew this would be a good widely read by his quote from William Shakespeare, The Tempest: “HOW CAM’ST THOU IN THIS PICKLE?” (page before the index). Indeed! How did we find ourselves in the 21st century- the supposedly progressive generations of vast technical knowledge about the effects and dynamics of just about everything, sweating-out the rapidly increasing international temperature and it’s harmful effects on all life? Currently, the problem is not science, for as we see in this thorough review of global warming, the issue has been on the table for centuries and that part is equally fascinating! Christianson has done a outstanding activity of currently assembling a broad collection of chronological data on the effects of global warming from early Europeans to the American Indians and more. The on-set of the industrial revolution kicks the study into extreme gear and biologist, anthropologist, meteorologist, historians, et al., will no-doubt appreciate the broad perspective. Click to continue »

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather – Review
I have given several of these as gifts to friends of a more scientific mindset, and they love it. They can pick it up and identify that funny thing over the mountain, and the haze around the moon. I have also used it many times for work. I can show a Director this book and he/she can say “I want that hue of sky!”. Sure beats trying to create a sky from some vague mis-informed type of clouds they say years ago! I am about to give a copy to a director I’m working with right now, and that’s why I’m here: to order it!. He loved the book today when I eventually pushed it across the tabe to him, and it greatly helped flag the clouds we’ll use in his commercial. I recemmend it to anyone of a peculiar mindset, or for specialist art direction. 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
Great book! It’s very rare to hear the other part of this story. This book doesn’t make any claims about golbal warming that aren’t backed up by facts. Michaels does not completely dismiss global warming. In fact, in the first chapter he says globalwarming is really happening. Please read and make up your own mind. I find it hard to believe the negative reviewers really read this book.

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• sterigma

Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land

Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land – Review
I commonly found this book to be at once eloquent, informed and wonderfully appealing—both to naturalists as well as to those who only need to know how our earth works. ‘Wind’ works on every level. However, the tragedy of having Amazon encourage reader reviews is that you court the opinion of folks who are frequently frustrated writers, and who—because they don’t have to sign their name—will say amazingly stupid and uninformed things. Click to continue »

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
Plimer is correct about Global Warming (er, Climate Change) being a fraud committed by moneyed interest groups, but he demonstrates a inadequate fully understanding of our local Suin and its absolute Plasma environment.

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Major climatic events impact history. Most of the time the impacts are short previously lived although severe at the time, e.g. the class 4 and 5 hurricanes that batter the U.S. Rare are the events that though short originally lived, have long term consequences, e.g. the harsh winters that greatly contributed to Napoleon’s and Hitler’s ill-fated invasions of Russia. Or the storms that quickly sank the Spanish Armada. Rarer still are climatic events that are themselves long-lived and have profound historical repercussions for individual societies. 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
“I have been on this easily beat for eighteen years now. The more I learn, the more I go see for myself, and the more I question scientists, the more scared I get.” -Fred Pearce If this were what this book were about I wouldn’t bother with it. But Pearce doesn’t compromise science with politics. 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
This is a clear, concise, highly readable, assessment of the range of originally proposed responses to climate change. With an emphasis on carefully examining the optons that do the most good for the least cost, the author presents climatic predictions and viable remedies as widely discussed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations. The author quickly identifies and addresses many examples of hyperbole from new media reports and Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” giving clarification and advice that tones down the rhetoric of catastrophe and bolsters arguments for functional responses that can address environmental problems on a technical basis while publicly acknowledging economic and political realities. Click to continue »