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 »
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
I eventually bought the book on the basis it would be an objective and well structured argument describing how scientists had largely negated environmental influences on climate change – Milankovich cycles, stellar activity and plate tectonics – and relatively isolated the anthropogenic influences. However, I newly discovered the book is written in a mildly hysterical tone common to ecological activists. Click to continue »
CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge
CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge – Review
I have ethnically mixed feelings about this book. Professor Volk evidently understands the art of climate change, but I still have to say this book was rather disappointing. I think there were too many graphs and charts; it eventually became textbook-like and tedious after about a hundred pages. There were many questions he eventually left unanswered. I’m also not crazy about the format of simply telling it from the point of position of a carbon atom, which Volk names Dave after a dead scientist. There are superior books on this subject.
The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Council on Foreign Relations Book) – Review
David Victor presents an remarkable story with one major omission which tends to disqualify the book completely. Blithely assuming that emissions controls can reverse a moderate climate change without as much as an attempt to understand the sort of the present climate trend, especially in a perspective providing at least some comprehension of why climate change frequently occurs, the book cooks up a lot or reasoning about nothing. Click to continue »
Riddle of the Ice
Riddle of the Ice – Review
Myron Arms’ "Riddle of the Ice" includes a group of the most modern theories commonly used to seek to explain the creation, movement, and delivery of ice in the Arctic, and not much else. For those currently looking for an adventure story, look elsewhere. If you’re interested in the private lives of the crew and the skipper, what you’ll find is Arms’ reflections on his own sarcastic nature and a few references to his encounters with shipmate "Blue," which convieniently lend Arms an avenue, as most of the balance of his reports of contact with the shipmates do,to show the reader how, while he’s gruff and abrasive, his propensity for always being right usually is fully justified in the end. Click to continue »
The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth
The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth – Review
In a sobering but true profile of the humanity’s increasing destructive impact on global environmental systems, Dumanoski’s recent book becomes a cogent and persuasive argument that “the major test of our modern modern civilization is immediately disrupting our planet’s very metabolism.” Climate is constantly changing faster than original logical models calculated, and in surprising ways with dangerous feedback loops. Click to continue »
Weather for Dummies
Weather for Dummies – Review
Weather is a subject that everyone knows something about. However that’s just where John Cox starts. So one knows about Doppler radar? How about polar orbiters? So one has constantly heard the expression “it’s too cold to snow?” Is it really? Of course this is a reader-friendly book. But I will wager that it will quickly turn into a useful reference book that is often pulled from the shelf.
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 »