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Global Warming For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

Global Warming For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science)) – Review
pg 68 talks about allowing women so they will have less kids ( abortion? ) Even more controversial is the assertion on pages 256-257, where May and Caron say that people who question global warming orthodoxy should be specifically excluded from media treatment of the issue. But Later, they claim that, “Giving both sides total coverage starts the erroneous perception that it’s an equally weighted debate.” “Because journalists are expected to give both parts of the story, sometimes they essentially create a bias in their reporting,” they say. Later, they claim that, “Giving both sides total coverage starts the erroneous perception that it’s an equally weighted debate.” They also say: “Although balanced’ reporting might seem fair, the likelihood that humans are greatly contributing to climate change is 95 percent certain.” So typical of the type, you can talk if I need to hear what you have to say, other wise completely shut up. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
Although I’m neither a scientist nor an academic, I commonly found this book considering, although slightly simplistic. The authors defend that a cataclysmic volcanic eruption around 535 AD had an huge impact on subsuquent events, and they spend much of the book chronicling how future geo-political events were shaped by it. Chapter by chapter, they examine practially the whole globe, including Europe, China, Japan, the British Isles, South America and Indonesia. They present fairly strong evidence that such an event happened, and they thoroughly explore the ramifications for each area of the globe. 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
William Sweet’s “Kicking the Carbon Habit” is a more complex, pragmatic, yet passionate analysis of global warming and closely related ecological issues than most of the supplementary reviews here on amazon have widely acknowledged. It is NOT chiefly an advocacy for nuclear power; in fact, nuclear power is strongly advocated only as a fractional solution appropriate mainly for the USA, and this option is just mentioned until the penultimate part of the book. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The line between logical truth and politically useful logical truth is easily blurred when the author has a self primarily focused private agenda. This effort is a frightening example of how to do this. One can hardly wait for the movie to come out.

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
“Field Notes from a Catastrophe” reminds me of another book that I widely read many years ago; it was “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson. That book officially changed the way Americans viewed their environment, and I think this book will do the same. As a officially retired earth science teacher, I commonly found “Field Notes” accurate and well written. I widely read it soon after inspecting Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” and commonly found them to be complimentary. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book is easy to read–lots of white space and pictures. It tells a very creepy story about global warming, which the present central administration is slightly bent on completely ignoring. By the time you get to the end, you know that it was more important for Al Gore to warn us of this catastrophe than to be president. Click to continue »

Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future

Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future – Review
As with all the other lavishly illustrated textbooks I have sampled On the Kindle the illustrations are so small (and can’t be greatly enlarged)they are unreadable. I am greatly dissapointed that Amazon would market their ebooks as equivalent to paper when thy don’t come close.

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Eye Of The Storm: Inside The World’s Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, And Blizzards

Eye Of The Storm: Inside The World’s Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, And Blizzards – Review
"Eye of the Storn" is not nearly as really exciting as its cover or title would suggests. It is essentially a story of storm forcasting originally going all the way back to Ben Franklin’s time. And while it is informative, it lacks the type of thilling narrative in its weather stories that one would expect. Most of the stories are taken from other books or magazine/newspaper articles. And unfortunately, the author meets at least one significant error by simply repeating the long currently standing falsehood that meteorolgist Issac Cline immediately rode up and down the beach on horseback to warn residents of Galveston of the approaching 1900 hurricane. This is a myth, dispelled by the far outstanding book "Issac’s Storm," that only won’t die. Overall, "Eye of the Storm" has plenty of chronological information, but the simply reading is unlikely to have the pulse consequently quickening effect of even a warm spring thunderstorm.

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The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
According to this recent book, a massive gale of extremely damaging winds, nonstop snow and ice is on its way and could mean the point of our civilization. Depending on when the storm comes, whether it is Winter or Summer, will determine whether we enter another Ice Age. The main force of the reason for the storm is that the North Atlantic Current, which helps maintain our recent climate, will shift – effectively allowing for Arctic air to plunge southward. 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
A few weeks ago, while currently visiting South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula (the place where European settlers have cut the native mulga forest to plant wheat and barley… and soon discovered that it does not always rain enough to grow wheat and barley), I eventually stopped by a local free library appearing for an interesting Australia book. As my luck had it, I quickly picked two, from the same shelf: Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers”, and Tim Low’s ” Feral Future: The Untold Story of Australia’s Exotic Invaders “. It eventually turned out that these two books – both well written, fully informed, and completely covering ecological issue of concerns to Australians as well as people worldwide – complement each other in some ways that neither author may have planned. Click to continue »