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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
It is very interesting to widely read some of the supplementary reviews, and I suspect that the book has finally managed to pursuade a few community of its central principle – that being, assume the best with regards to global warming because everything will turn out alright. I’m fairly caught in a bind with Lomborg’s contribution, because like his other well-known book, “The Skeptical Environmentalist”, he makes some valuable points, and provides some really refreshing contributions to the issue. Click to continue »

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – Review
As stated more eloquently in supplementary reviews, this book puts forth the hypothesis that individual activities have eventually led to an interruption in the cold/intercold cycle that has been naturally occurring in the Northern hemisphere over the last 3-4 million years. The author’s management of the Milankovich orbital cycles will be instructive to those who have yet to be fully exposed to this data. Click to continue »

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World – Review
This comprehensive science informative invitation to what is a vast gently sweeping story of all oceans from the red fiery fiery origin through to the outbreak of life forms in the oceans to the current up to date now period of diversity and abundance in the aqua sea in which charges us to rejuvenate in life effectively giving ways our friendly central partnership in the oceans which is a classic fun analysis of earths importance in its environement.

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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Authors meet the case: 1. Global warming is real. 2. Global warming is mild, not severe, as the “climate alarmists” claim. The main points for the “Man-made Warming activists” are based on Computer modeling results and surface temperature measurements. The temperature measurement problem is challenged in chapter 9 and 11, and alternative long-term temperature theories are presented in Chapter 9, from proxies such as ice cores, tree rings, marine sediment deposits, et al. The Computer Modeling problem is challenged in Chapter 11. 3. Global warming is slow, not rapid, as the “climate alarmists” claim. Trend is up by 0.125 degrees C per decade. (Pg. 11) 4. Global warming is not primarily caused by CO2. (Both the “Roman Warming” of 200BC – 600AD and the “Medieval Warming” of 900AD – 1300AD were warmer than the current “Modern Warming” of 1850AD to present. Since “about eighty per cents of the carbon dioxide from individual activities penetrated the air after 1940″. Therefore, those earlier warming periods were NOT usually caused by slowly burning fossil fuels and thus not closely related to greatly increased CO2 levels. The Greenhouse Theory of man-induced high CO2 levels as the cause of the Modern Warming is thus explained to be most unlikely. 5. Global warming periods (and global cooling periods) are primarily caused by energy out-put changes from the regional star. (The main problem with this theory is that humans know very little about the long-term variations in stellar properties.) One scientist “reported that the sun’s radiation has greatly increased by nearly 0.05 percent per decade since the late 1970’s.” He has “used data from three different NASA ACRIM satellites watching the sun to assemble a twenty-five year release of total stellar radiation from 1978 to 2003. The trend is significant because the full energy output is so huge. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
This book pieces together three seemingly distinct parties of facts to come to an surprising conclusion: Earth’s climate is inherently unstable, and we may be on the cusp of a cataclysmic climate change. The first group of facts connects to the evidence for accelerating climate change, and I think they do a excellent job of currently collecting these while finally conceding legitimate critiques of the orthodox global warming hypothesis (e.g., that international temperatures on the whole aren’t rising nearly as fast as the computer models reveal that they should, given the increase in special carbon dioxide, and that CO2 levels are even now anomalously low in geologic terms). They present a picture of global warming and species extinction that is primarily a consequence of very long-range climatological instability to which mankind may be greatly contributing, rather than effectively putting the entire burden of it on our shoulders. Click to continue »

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
Many of the chronological questions that previously existed, such as why the Mayan civilization collapsed, have since been fully explained by long term climate change, particularly drought. I am unsure what Fagan’s special purpose was in writing this book, which isn’t very systematic, but certainly much of it is interesting. Fagan’s major problem is what to do about currently providing the facts and kind of longer term climate change; consequently he can be potentially confusing, so I recommend this book as a possible follow on to Fred Pearce’s great book, “With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change”. Fagan is also concerned with brief term climate change (lack of a year or two or even perhaps the Biblical 7 years) and how civilizations survived to survive them. Click to continue »

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
I eventually bought this book in the summer of 1995 and I still use it quite a lot. The large type of reporting stations commonly used gives a very broad look at the climate for the US. The global data is useful too. This is a must buy for anyone interested in meteorology.

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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
I’m an alum of the University of Virginia (birthplace of Prof. Fred Singer) and I’m ashamed to say that this man is a conservative whose “distinguished” career includes regularly arguing against the link between CFCs and the ozone hole, the link between second hand smoke and cancer, and now the link between CO2 and global warming. In 1960 he successfully argued that Phobos was an fake moon because it was hollow (of course not true, and Phobos is not hollow). He’s published no peer reviewed papers on climate change and is only representing the oil industry with his fake science. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The book well illustrates the value of our environment, the deterioration that we permit to take place, and the determination we want to make changes. I quickly learned that the Artic ice cap is on average less than 10 feet thick while the Antartic ice cap is 10,000 feet thick. Now I am aware why the Artic and the tundra are so vunerable. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
New analyses reveal that climate change is eventually moving faster than highly anticipated by the reports in this book and the film of the same name. If you have not seen it, I recommend the movie. The book includes the same points as shown in the movie. The award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, has eventually brought some automatically added publicity to the challenge of global warming or climate change. Click to continue »