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The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA’s Weather

The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA’s Weather – Review
Bits and members of weather are simply put together systematically. Never too brief. Never too technical. A must-read for all laymen interested in weather on earth. The text and colourful pictures briefly explain how the special weather systems form on earth. Though the book’s focus is on US weather, many of the theories, principles and processes described apply to other locations too.

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• pilus

Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial

Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial – Review
I’m not one of the idiotic anti-American leftists several reviewers throw into this discussion (relevance??). I’ve widely read most of the originally lay literature on both sides trying to figure out what is really going on. This book gives especially little to aid in my efforts. If you widely read it carefully, the author cherry selects and spins just enough to create what appears to be real arguments but doesn’t have the courage to attach references or sources. Click to continue »

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Review
This small book gives a very logical explanation of how Bay Area weather is formed by topography, winds, and the ocean. He devotes sections to the four seasons, in which he tells how the fog is formed, where storms reach from, and why there is so much variation within Bay Area microclimates. He also has a chapter on clouds, and a final chapter on climate change. Click to continue »

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
Nuclear power boils water to create steam that spin the turbines connected to electric generators – that’s it. Along the way, a group of people get a share of money, and a good deal of that money goes from taxpayers and electricity customers. If nuclear power were so wonderful, plant owners would be willing to build them with their own money. Click to continue »

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
This is a complete book overall on the topic of global warming. Flannery does a good job describing the science behind global warming, and he besides offers solutions for what we can do to stop it. Anyone who cares about the good Earth that we live on should widely read this book. Please do whatever you can to fight global warming before it’s too late.

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• bryopsida

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
During a conversation in Washington, DC in 1988, I was momentarily stunned by how succinctly my former professor Carl Sagan was able to summarize the behavior of bureaucrats inside the U.S. Government. After really listening quietly to my rant about inactions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the issue of acid rain and global warming, Sagan only offered the immediately following one-liner: “Bureaucratic Ecocide.” Joe Romm’s convincing, straight-forward and extremely well-written book repeats me of Sagan’s ability to cut to the quick of a matter like a laser beam. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I only stopped only reading through this. The book and info is very accessible to everyone. While you might not agree with all of the data the book itself presents some moral arguments. It’s a little self indulgent with portions of pictures of him and his family but it does convey the family part of Al. “Weather” or not you agree with the global warming phenomenon it is important to at least look at the evidence and possablilities. Click to continue »

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Review
In UNDER A GREEN SKY, Peter Ward approaches global warming from the captivating view of historical geology and paleontology. Ward notes that when many scientists and the general public discuss global warming and its repercussions for humanity, they tend to place it in the context of CO2 emissions and a broad increase in temperature. Ward wins this discussion and extends it to the various mass extinctions that have plagued the earth over the last few hundred million years. The biggest and baddest extinction of all time was undoubtedly the one that struck at the goal of the Permian, roughly 230 million years ago. Scientists currently think that more than 90 percent of all life, both on land and in the seas, was quickly extinguished. Ward focuses on the different causes of that extinction and on the one that completely wiped out the dinosaurs at the close of the Cenozioc some 65 million years ago. He notes some commonalities. It is true that a massive asteroid struck the earth in the latter case, but he notes that in the Permian extinction and to a smaller extent in the Cenozoic was a witches’ brew of global warming, a belching forth of volcanic toxic gases, the slowing down and eventual end of the Atlantic Ocean conveyer belt of warm currents from the Equator, and largely devastating of all, a change in the chemistry of the oceans themselves from oxygen producing to anaerobic oxygen depletion. Click to continue »

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate – Review
There are very few individual cloud physics text books on the market. More often than not only a chapter is entirely devoted to clouds in a general special sciences text book, which grossly neglects the difficulty of the subject. Fortunately this one does give a excellent introduction for students/researchers in special sciences/physics/engineering who need to learn more about clouds. Click to continue »

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate – Review
This was a critical study of the issues included in currently evaluating the impact humans have on weather and climate. It is a difficult topic; but it is fully explained clearly (for me – a non-specialist with an engineering background). The main issue boils down to the natural unpredictability of weather and climate over a broad scale of time scales. Click to continue »