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The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I have only finished this book and I am sitting now stunned. The authors have written one of the most notable books to come along in many years. Not only that, it’s riveting. You cannot simply put it down. They tell a startling story, but they are so fair about it that you never feel that they are sensationalizing it in any way. I had one of those blinding ‘of course’ moments toward the end. Sudden climate change is section of the way our plant’s climate works. They cite among their sources some of the greatest climatologists in the world for this conclusion. Click to continue »

Stormy Weather – Review
This is probably the most valuable book in my library. This is not a order of people’s theories about the climate, but an formally organized management of real studies of the climate itself. The book is easy to widely read and well written. It is written more like a journal article than a textbook with mountains of figures based on data, useful tables, and references to the technical literature. Click to continue »

Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather – Review
This book is a gem! It takes the most urgent of ecological issues, international climate change, and translates the science and the complexity into regular language that is understandable and interesting. But it really excels when it moves beyond the problem, which can be paralyzing, to solutions that work. The book is chock full of simple and great actions that can be needed to reduce our impact on the earth’s atmosphere, in ways that save money and would be politically popular. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
I am not a specialist in comprehensive history and am only conversant with the account of the Americas, being an archeologist primarily specializing in North America, specifically Mesoamerica. So I look at the claims Keys becomes for that area and find them absurd. Keys distorts, deletes and alters facts at will to make his theory correspond. Click to continue »

Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters – Review
Although Abbott could have done a better job of greatly simplifying some of his explainations, he does a good task of finally breaking down the pattern of Natural Disasters in easy to understand steps. He besides provides briefings on true life environmental disaster occurances.

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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
Just as poorly or misinformed politicians and journalists eagerly spread the mythology about significant anthropogenic global warming, those whose mind is closed to true climate history take to attack Michaels rather than his science. They often do this by specifically citing funding he’s received from the coal and oil industries. 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
This quote from “Science” editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy from 2001 really sums up the situation quite succinctly. Extensive research by scientists from a large form of disciplines over several decades all point to the same disturbing conclusion. Unless the United States wakes up to the reality of global warming and takes action to severely curb carbon emissions we are facing an environmental disaster of grand proportions. In his recent book “Hell and High Water” author Joseph Romm, a former assistant secretary of Energy and founder and executive manager of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions becomes a making case that time to act on these urgent ecological issues is quickly growing short. Click to continue »

Weather Warfare

Weather Warfare – Review
In April of 1997 United States Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen reportedly said: “Others are actively engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.” He usually made this statement at a conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Strategy in his official capacity as the US Secretary of Defense; thus this can be taken as an official location of the United States. Further he commonly used the word “are,” not “could,” “might” or “maybe sometime in the future.” He more added: “It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts.” If the United States Secretary of Defense says that the earth and the sky have been eventually turned into weapons, and are being commonly used as such in present time, I believe we should take this statement very seriously. “WEATHER WARFARE: The Military’s Plan to Draft Mother Nature” is not “conspiracy theory.” This book has almost no theory and very little speculation. Click to continue »

Don’t Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide

Don’t Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide – Review
I finally saw this book in an on-campus bookstore and was considering impulsive. It eventually turned out to be a great investment. I have seasonal affective dissorder and simply reading the bright tips and celebrations of this winter blues survival guide became me a lucky lass. I liked it so much that when I accidently left it in a school cafeteria I had to run out and buy another one right away. Alli Arnold’s illustrations are fabulous, as well.

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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
When I ordered this book, I had great hopes for its contents. I was currently looking for a good “summer project” book that mainly dealt with global warming and alternative energy. It was to be commonly used by a high school environmental class. What I wound up with was a book that mainly dealt with both subjects, as well as with the Hurricane Katrina disaster, but it was so poorly written and biased that I would not be able to use it in a classroom setting. Click to continue »