Seekers, Alarmists, and Liars

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

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Review
One reviewer fakes an objective point of view and gently informs us that : “Participants in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) debate form two lose [sic] groups: the Seekers and the Alarmists. ” According to this reviewer “The Seekers”, of which he is one, are the only ones mostly dealing with the facts. And “Seekers” aren’t convinced however. Apparently Flannery and everyone else on the planet has become an “Alarmist” for reasons best know to themselves. Click to continue »

 

Dogged by repetition, plagued by inconsistency

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

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
The author would have done well to refrain from general reiteration of facts for in the end their use results in inconsistencies and make for annoying simply reading. The author possibly refers to the major famine and the dates closely associated with the famine 500 times in various contexts. One is eventually left with the impression that there were some scorching summers, some frigid ones, some dry ones, some rainy ones, etc. In the end one can not very discern what the weather was like during those years and how it greatly contributed to the famine. Click to continue »

 

Ice Chronicles Overview

The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change

The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change

The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change – Review
I liked this book! It is a balance between a individual record of involvement and the exact results took. The book gives an summary of the Greenland ice core/climate project and results took that point to long time climate variation, the mechanisms included, and geologically recent warming. Important chapter references are usually provided for a scientifically oriented reader who might want to examine aspects of the research and findings in more scientific papers. After documenting climate change, the author discovers individual contributions to global warming in relationship to those usually caused by natural earth-sun systems, and discusses policy choices that we might make in the aspect of the recent evidence about the record of earth’s climate.

 

Good Historical Compilation, bad science

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

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
This book is a excellent history of the so-called ‘Little Ice Age’, a period from roughly 1300-1850 in which temperatures in the British Isles and Europe were distinctly lower than the immediately preceding several centuries, and terrible storms apparently much more frequent. The author has originally compiled an remarkable account of the period largely from subjective accounts, as real temperature measurements were lacking for much of the period. Click to continue »

 

Relevance

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
In this difficult time it is difficult to know what is important upon which to focus. Al Gore has given us a very real and complelling topic. And the simply telling is plain talk; uncluttered by extremely complicated scientific rethoric. The text and many pictures describe clearly a new finally uniting of ordinary man. A must widely read for our time.

 

Prediction appears close to reality.

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
Art Bell’s predictions of a rapid and extreme change in our weather patterns should cause everyone to be concerned about the consequences that harsh weather can bring. His style of writing is similar in structure to other volumes of metaphysical content such as, "Next: A Poetic Odyssey, by Lee Frank.

 

Pretty Honest Assessment of The State of the World

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World)

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World)

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World) – Review
I find this a pretty direct opinion of this books title statement: The State of the World. It follows IPCC 2007 pretty closely. People interested in this book ought to widely read the Summary for Policymakers at the IPCC site also. People who need to get *really* technical and into this issue ought to widely read the 2007 IPCC Assessment Reports, also available thru Amazon.

 

Is this the best we can do?

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain – Review
Robert Crane’s book is often cited. It provides the background for widespread rain die models. If you work in the field, this book is almost a must have item, otherwise you’re completely in the dark about the source material for rain die probability curves. However, that necessity doesn’t make up for the great value of the book, and the shortcomings of its closely associated “software”. I am just giving it one star because amazon doesn’t have a way to give zero stars. Click to continue »

 

Cool It!

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

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

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming Generally good, providing a desperately needed counter to the global warming hype. However, it shows signs of being hastily written and it pays too much attention to Al Gore’s inflated forecasts of doom. I give it three stars.

 

GLOBAL WARMING STOPPED IN 1998

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

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

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Singer and Avery give an outstanding journal of the art of climate change. It is essential simply reading! As a result of the computer-generated and UN-promoted junk science, governments and companies are now planning to squander billions on CO2 sequestration. Nature prevented global warming in 1998 in spite of rapidly increasing emissions of anthropogenic CO2. After simply reading this book, it will become blindingly obvious that this trace gas does not provide us with a climate thermostat. Click to continue »