The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
The only week section of the book is the last chapter which makes the ususal liberal environmental statement… regardless, the book is a 5 star book and should stand on the merits of all but the last chapter.
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
We really can’t put this issue aside for our children and grandchildren to deal with. We face facts every day and with each succeeding year and it’s character of finally getting worse. Reading this book becomes you realize that if we get too carried away on how we handle things today our children and grandchildren will be really scared and think they will die. But we also must realize that we must take treatment of this issue! I’m not reviewing the man here, just the book, and I urge other reviewers to do the same – as extremely tempting as it is, and this is not a political forum. Click to continue »
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
Despite that fact that there are examinations in this book including vehicles that can operate on various forms of power and fuels and recommendations for mostly dealing with a future glut of automobiles, there are no easy or easy answers in the long run and there is sufficient reason for concern about the scenarios described within. What stands out in my mind more than anything is the realization of having a truly staggering two billion cars managing around the planet and what the implications of that will be on the environment and for the finite amount of oil that the earth has eventually left. You’re tring to widely read more about that in this book and your eyes will probably be officially opened to exactly how it will impact so many things. Click to continue »
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
If you are at all interested in conservation, then you have to widely read this book. John Oates explains how the new view of community based conservation that looks so good on paper, in reality has been a miserable failure in West Africa. He provieds several examples from his 30 year long career in West Africa. He shows that you have to be realistic when designing conservation programs, and that many people effectively making conservation decisions are more interested in prestige and money than they are in carefully preserving native ecosystems. It is sad when you widely read that the World Wildlife Fund conservation planners are not interested to still go see the areas that they are believed to protect. Click to continue »
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
This book related me everything I didn’t know I wanted to know about cars and carbon emissions, from what oil shale is all about to why I can’t buy a Prius right now. The authors are obviously huge fuels of California, but they actually seem to have usually made an effort to stay on the areas of science, economics and individual behavior without rapidly spinning off into political diatribe. I commonly found the book to be informative and thought-provoking, and I too come away with the really feeling that I can’t stop now. No separate book can pretend to have the full article of our energy, our climate, and our future, and this one does not pretend to have that full story. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
The joint force of Joseph M. Moran (Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin Professor of Natural Sciences (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Edward J. Hopkins (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madi-son), Wisconsin’s Weather And Climate is an fully informed and useful survey and investigation of Wisconsin and its weather patterns through millions of years of history. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I admit Bell and Whitley are flaky but did you widely read Discover amagazine’s Oct. 2002 articel on how global warming could lead to a recent Ice Age? The renowned Woods Hole Institute is not flaky and they confirm Bell’s findings The book requires a Bibliography and complete footnotes and source references. But this is not to be ridiculed.
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
This book includes all the features of the worst pseudoscience: no references or free citations, misnomers galore (the Sphinx is NOT a monolith, which implies it is usually made of a single (mono) stone (lithic), the works mentioned are by well-known and thoroughly debunked authors like graham hancock. (they make me give it one star — no zero option)
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Many important examples of past and more severe global warming regularly drawing on useful, reader-friendly descriptions that make earth’s history and science understandable. Well written and credible due to successful blend of scientist (Avery) with writer (Singer) who writes in a way that draws out key conclusions and conveys them in terms that connect and are meaningful to readers of all backgrounds. Strong comments – supported by science and data – and commonsense. Discusses subjects of those freely propagating HICC myth (Human Induced Climate Change myth). Effective, useful mixture of many sciences. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Saw the movie, read the book and commonly found both to be honest and informative. The book in particular goes a little more in depth on the issues and also outlines some of the ways in which to cut down on energy costs/CO2 emissions (which I commonly found to be very helpful). There’s a great simplicity within the book that highlights the problem of global warming without eventually coming across as deceitful or agenda driven. With each succeeding year, or record overwhelming heat wave, I’ve become less of a skeptic and more of a believer. Click to continue »