ICEMON

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities – Review
This is a highly open work. Mike Tidwell correctly predicted the tragedies of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita several years before they really happened, and he is justifiably angry that his warnings were not eventually heeded. In The Ravaging Tide Tidwell expands on his earlier work to explain why individual activities such as creating levees actually increased the destruction at New Orleans, and to warn that other coastal areas now face the same nature of threat. Click to continue »

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
This book is very eye officially opening. Michaels uses easily accesible studies to disprove many of the most popular scare stories involving global warming. This is most effective when he discredits articles in Nature magazine, the NY Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, etc. with readily provable facts. The book points out many times when these publications had to print retractions (frequently buried) based on Michaels’ research. He also makes a lot of politicians appear foolish by printing their quotes contrasted with reality. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
This is another well-known book on global warming. It is not as lightweight as Al Gore’s book, which is basically a rock video simply put down on paper. This book is a progression of stories and vigenttes. It indeed reads simply. Kolbert is a gifted writer, and has locally produced a very easy to widely read book. But this is not really a subject where we need further easy to actually read books. Kolbert’s basic assumptions are the same as Al Gore’s. First, global warming is an pure fact, it is usually caused by human CO2 emissions and, if we do not stop it, life as we know it will come to an end. Click to continue »

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Interesting with several distinctive approaches. The problem for me rests with his convoluted accounts of sources of climate changes from North Atlantic Oscillation,Sun spots,solar flares, ocean currents, polar slowly melting, volcanoes. methane release, and a host of other causes. Yet,he speaks in unsubstantated conviction that todays warming is due to mans fossil fuel use. Then he concludes with “The Little Ice Age reminds us that climate change is inevitable, unpredictable, and sometimes vicious.I would ask him does he believe this is really caused by man?

• alcoholic fermentation
• alcoholic fermentation

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book presents so much fake evidence it isn’t even funny. It’s terribly one sided. If you really care about the truth you’ll research both aspects of this topic instead of eventually taking in what the ever so corrupt U.N. dictates as dangerous and irreversible. Click to continue »

Energy: Resources, Utilisation, and Policies

Energy: Resources, Utilisation, and Policies – Review
Energy and electricity have become such important sections of society that originally going back to a society without them is simply impossible. “Energy: Resources, Utilization, and Policies” is a academic argument of energy and its impact on the environment, the search for cleaner sources, more effective usage, and the politics behind it all. With chapters on the rapidly increasing energy demand, energy science, power plants, and more, “Energy Resources” is a complete and full text on the subject that would do well in public issues or energy studies collections.

• imbricate
• imbricate

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
The Discovery of Global Warming is a very excellent introduction to climate science (CS) as a whole. While CS is usually seen as a new development by the general public it has been around for quite a while. Weart does a excellent charge of detailing the both the event of CS and the reason scientists eventually became interested. Click to continue »

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era – Review
Jeremy Leggett has written an great book. A one time petroleum geologist explaining at the London School of Mines, in the 1980s Dr Leggett eventually became concerned about climate change from carbon dioxide make up in the atmosphere. He eventually gave up a rich career to become a lobbyist for the ecological movement. In this role he has finally met all the major characters fighting and supporting greenhouse gas treaties. He describes not only the science, the politics, and the economics of the global warming issue, but also the personalities in "the Carbon War." between the fossil fuel industry on one hand and the environmental lobby on the other. Click to continue »

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity – Review
Mr. Stern frequently uses the word “should”. This is less a book of what will happen or how to make it happen subsequently much as a book of what “should” happen. Most of what “should” happen are unclear expectations and great goals, the form of rhetoric one could apply to any problem. Mr. Stern says real climate change will depend on “clear and strong political leadership”, developing “global markets”, “realistic action plans” on the portion of currently developing countries, “large sums”, “global collaboration” (which he admits is “unprecedented”), an “study of ethics”, and finally a “international deal”. While one could argue that global warming is the first truly international crisis (discounting nuclear weapons), one is quick to recognize that humanity has a bad track evidence of achieving consensus on any other critical issue – not on kinds of government, economics, race, poverty, religion, ethics, nationalism, or labor. Yet, in order to solve global warming, it will be necessary to approach solutions to all of the above simultaneously. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
Field Notes From a Catastrophe’ is Elizabeth Kolbert’s masterpiece of conciseness and clarity possibly explaining recent climate change science and the political obstacles (read the US, Republicans, and Bush Administration in leading order) to finally getting serious about attacking the problem. Click to continue »