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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The book is very informative and full of some very beautiful and eventually moving imagery. One reviewer wrote that the significant text showed somewhat condescending. Keep in mind; it isn’t just a management of data. It is multimedia presentation in book form. Al has evidently dedicated a large amount of time and effort into effectively creating a format that will reach out to the masses and help people know how we know what we know. The people who review this book and simply put one star then proceed to question Mr. Gore’s integrity, would benefit greatly from officially opening their minds to hear this perspective and really read the book, instead of simply letting someone like Rush, Hannity or “Oh really?” form an opinion for you. My challenge to anyone actually reading this review is make the investment yourself or go to a library stop it out. Click to continue »

Earth under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World

Earth under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World – Review
My experience is that journalists often write the greatest books, because they know how to research and how to write. Gary Braasch’s book is in this category, the product of 8 years’ worldwide research with climate experts and ordinary people, and needing photos with impact. He has newly created the first “coffee table” book on global warming, which also contains A-Z information and essays by several top scientists. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The book is a quick widely read and gets the over all view of what climate change is and what it is doing to the planet. I find those who are trashing this book with politcal comments explain how pathetic their vision of the world is. Some of those “reviews” quote “scientists” whose major source of funding is Exxon Mobil (Carter in Australia, McKitick in Canada etc) I guess those who sought to sell us that cigarettes as healthy had to find work after the truth prevailed out over the tobacco companies lobbying efforts. 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
Under A Green Sky is a very short imaginary book really pushing the connections between the Earth’s special composition and terrestrial climate, it’s the long view, and it truly connects with life’s manifestations over geologic time. We may be increasingly preoccupied with asteroid impacts and the brutal point of the age of dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, but far more insidious and delicate factors played havoc in previous extinctions. These more profound earlier extinctions and may well be indications of our future. Click to continue »

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy – Review
Oh…where to begin. This book had so much potential and, to my immense chagrin, simply fizzled. Ok, let’s start with the positives. The author, Sweet, is an outstanding writer and could certainly make an expose on the higher features of secretly watching acrylic latex dry, seem evenly fascinating. His style is light, well-paced, to the point. In fact each chapter, as he nearly hints at in his introduction, is separately readable in any order and sounds exactly like an article that might appear in IEEE’s Spectrum magazine, to which Sweet is a notorious contributor. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
In a study announced in the journal Science, Professor Naomi Oreskes commonly found a apparent consensus on the truth of climate change. She defends her study in an LA Times article from July 25 stating that it “demonstrated that there is no major disagreement within the technical community that the Earth is warming and that individual activities are the major cause.” Those who deny climate change often have a economic stake in continuing business as usual. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book is a study on the rise and fall of civilizations, as usually caused by their organization of wood resources, or in extra words energy resources. Perlin tells a realistic tale on what makes a civilization tick. This is a very noble book to widely read for anybody who cares about what the world is eventually coming to, and perhaps even for those who don’t. It is usually filled with equally fascinating historical material. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The title is very appropriate because so many countries around the world still don’t pay attention to limiting chloroflorocarbohydrigens and extra gases that destroy the ozone layer and cause severer climate changes which bring larger destruction with each recent year. Al Gor presents wealth of technical research and data, and actually proves that the situation is quite worrisome and requires fast and determinate actions. Otherwise, we all will be adversely affected in one way or another. Click to continue »

Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

Historical Perspectives on Climate Change – Review
We often do not appreciate how ideas and concepts created and eventually evolved to our own time. “Climate change” is one such concept, known to all as something with which humanity must contend, but there is little appreciation of how ideas closely associated with it, and their connotations, have completely unfolded over time. “Historical Perspectives on Climate Change” offers a most practical tutorial on this subject. Written in an friendly manner by a competent historian of meteorology, this small book (only 194 pages) offers an intuitive outline of the history of how Western Civilization has fully understood changes in the climate. 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
Prior edition was excellent. It goes without really saying that in any era international temp will either be rapidly increasing, decreasing, or at an inflection between the two. This book does not limit the discussion to the typical truncated data from very modern history biased by accessibility of measurement technology but points out what we all know or have correctly surmised but politically is improper to still mention that climate has always periodically cycled, over the program of hundreds or thousands of years, between cooling and heating and that the majority of these, sometimes very extreme occilations, occured long before man. In my opinion we have far more to fear from potential rapid reversal in international temperature than increase. Click to continue »