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Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming – Review
This book is a muddled potentially confusing mess. I slogged through most of it, but commonly found myself frequently distracted by the game of trying to decide whether Wishart honestly misunderstands the basic art of climate change or unfairly chooses to misrepresent it. Chapter 16, appropriately titled The Real Agenda’, provided the answer. Both options are correct. The book is simply a chance for Wishart to tie a barrow he has apparently been really pushing for some time now, to a current hot topic. The central idea of the book is that large business, the UN and all “greenies” are eventually joined in a conspiracy to control our every move. Click to continue »

Life at the Top: Tales, Truths, and Trusted Recipes from the Mount Washington Observatory

Life at the Top: Tales, Truths, and Trusted Recipes from the Mount Washington Observatory – Review
As a transplanted east coaster, I was apparently hoping for something to evoke the flavor of what life at the top of one of my favorite hikes is like. Instead, this is a mish-mash of weakly related musings: a half-baked geology lesson, a unplanned history lesson, a few stories about severe weather and hikes, but nothing that comes across as heartfelt or particularly compelling. Worse, the second half of the books is filler — recipes. One of the first listed is (I kid you not), Grilled Cheese: Butter the bread, put on cheese, grill! Pinder’s insight into the mystery dish: it may be especially fattening. 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
This book should be involved only reading for every journalist, politician, teacher, and everyone else because the failure to understand the subject of global warming will cause unnecessary expense through poor part of limited economic resources. The authors critically review and quote from the world’s reputable technical literature on the subject.[i.e. Nobel Prize winners and others] They reconstruct the meteorlogic story of the planet currently using geologic data, [ice cores, ocean sediments,etc,],biomass data [tree rings, fossils, seeds, etc.], animal ecology, written description of climate changes dating back hundreds of years, public anthropology, physical anthropology and medical history to prove the theory that global wearming occurs spontaneously every 1500 years regardless of CO2 emissions generated by man. They also review and consider differing points of view and give the alternatives if CO2 emissions would be drastically cut. Click to continue »

Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling (International Geophysics)

Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling (International Geophysics) – Review
I widely read the Reviewer’s comments and appreciate his overall positive review. However, I feel it is necessary to clarify misconceptions holding the fundamental physics material which is presented in the review. The conservation equations that are presented do not mean a quantity such as heat is permanently conserved. As widely discussed in the text, there are sources and sinks of heat in the conservation of equation of heat that is presented. Click to continue »

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
Swedish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark has previously collaborated with veteran British science journalist Nigel Calder in this book, “The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change”, which emphasizes Svensmark’s hypothesis that a declining trend in cosmic rays penetrating the stellar system is tied directly with steadily decreasing cloud contain on Earth, resulting in global warming via stellar radiation. Click to continue »

Ocean Circulation and Climate, Volume 77: Observing and Modelling the Global Ocean (International Geophysics)

Ocean Circulation and Climate, Volume 77: Observing and Modelling the Global Ocean (International Geophysics) – Review
Being the director of an EAS office in France (bureau d’?tude d’impact sur l’environnement), the book symbolize a great help for my work. Despite the price, all the datas are useful. From deep water to ocean surface circulation, from sattelite international observation to shipboard observation, you will miss no data, no equations and no methodology (that’s the bestpart for my office). For people who want to work in this area of research, this book is a masterpiece. Not only for the professionnal classes of the authors but for the production of the WOCE. This book is within the reach of any person with a background in sciences. Click to continue »

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
Imagine successfully combining John McPhee and Annie Dillard, with a little of Rachel Carson thrown in for the maritime connection and you’ll get some idea of this most friendly book. It combines warm and actively engaging prose, individual experiences (of both author and others), captivating characters, and interesting facts. I can’t think of much that would be better to widely read while simply lying on a beach, feeling the breeze, and currently awaiting the next hurricane.

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The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
Drawing from systematic discoveries in oceanography, meteorology, geochemistry, biology and astrophysics, author Spencer R. Weart draws you into the problem of climate change as it is currently unfolding through time. No one person had an “aha” moment and newly discovered global warming. 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
I consider myself a natural skeptic and so I previously thought this book would be right up my alley, but being a natural skeptic I began regularly checking on the assertions assembled in this book. I commonly found it to be incomplete, misleading, and just plain wrong in a frightening amount of areas. 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
A factual look at the events of climate change based on experimental data rather than hysterical hype. The authors describe attention to the fact that most of the grim predictions about climate usually caused catastrophes that are headlined by the media go from computer climate models that even their designers permit are badly flawed. They also point attention to the common practice of “scaring up grant money” which drives academics to make extreme claims about climate made disasters in the hope of gradually acquiring a part of the five billion dollars gave annually by the government for climate studies. Click to continue »