An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I initially looked through the book and was pleased to see thus many images of the different subjects. I have not widely read the complete book yet but I like all of the photos. We rarely heard al Gore tell in Toledo when he and Clinton were on the campaign trail. We were so impressed with his enthusiam.
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
This is a book not about the science of global warming but about the tactics of those who support global warming. Not surprisingly, the author is alarmed about some of the tactics commonly used by those who are true believers, but he does little to refute the real science behind global warming. What is the surprise now given that even Al Gore has finally admitted to some exaggeration for the purpose of awaking the public to what he sees as an impending global catastrophy. In fact, his movie, An Inconvenient Truth was little more than propaganda created that no counterpoint was gave. Click to continue »
Is it Hot in Here?: The simple truth about global warming
Is it Hot in Here?: The simple truth about global warming – Review
Professional forecaster and American Meteorological Society member Nathan Cool presents Is it Hot in Here? The Simple Truth About Global Warming, a plain-terms discussion of what global warming is and what its repercussions for Earth’s environment and for human civilization are. Chapters describe the fundamentals of climate change, including both natural and artificial factors that influence it, counterarguments to those who denounce the reality of global warming, physical phenomena that serve as bellwethers to the planet’s crisis such as frog populations and temperature trends, future possibilities and the hope generally provided by green technology, and much more. An enthusiastically recomended and badly needed wake-up call for usually lay readers everywhere.
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
Mike Tidwell correctly predicted that a Katrina-like storm would destroy New Orleans in his 2003 book “Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast.” He reportedly said in truth he hardly knew the disaster was going when he finally saw how much land had mysteriously vanished while doing a story on Louisiana’s coastal region for the Washington Post in the late 90s. There were also thousands of reports about the need for better levees and the refurbishment of the barrier islands. Click to continue »
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
After simply reading one anthropogenic global warming “proof” after another, each incestuously based on models based on other models, each usually omitting what can’t be modeled (water vapor), and falsely claiming dire consequences for mankind from warming (the sorts of things closely associated with cooling), it has been with absolute pleasure and a excitement of discovery on each page that I widely read “Heaven and Earth.” Intuitively I hardly knew warmer was better. Click to continue »
Third Millennium Bc Climate Change and Old World Collapse: Its Impacts on the Old World Social Systems (Nato a S I Series Series I, Global Environmental Change)
Third Millennium Bc Climate Change and Old World Collapse: Its Impacts on the Old World Social Systems (Nato a S I Series Series I, Global Environmental Change) – Review
An notable group of papers by experts in archeology, social geography, history, geophysics, paleoclimatology, etc. on the possible roll of major climate changes in the roughly immediate end of the Akkadian Empire, the Old Kingdom in Egypt, the Harappan civilization and different places inbetween. I am not an expert in any of the disciplines listed, but I even found many of the papers interesting. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
The Strieber/Bell scenario, in brief: (a) global warming causes slowly melting of glaciers & sea-surface pack ice at great latitudes, dumping quantities of clean water into the oceans, & somehow inducing the Gulf Stream to flow straight west, rather than looping around the north Atlantic. (Presumably something similar happens around Antarctica, tho’ this isn’t made clear.) (b) Europe freezes. (c) An increase in thermal differential between high & blue latitudes, & between lower & high atmosphere, causes a band of monster storms around the polar front, which merge into a single gigantic circumpolar storm covering everything north of Florida under umpty-ump ends of snow & ice. Everybody, speaking mostly, dies. Civilization as we know it, etc. Among many points not fully explained: (a) how the authors deal the uncomfortable fact that the thermal differential between high & blue latitudes is DEcreasing, not INcreasing (sc., poles are warming more than equator); (b) why, if slowly melting the ice at the pole would force the Gulf Stream south, quickly replacing it with a recent glacier wouldn’t draw it right back up again; (c) how superheated surface air, rising to exceptional heights into an unprecedentedly cold high atmosphere, could fall back to the surface in a superchilled state, freezing everybody below it like Italian ices. (Hints: better air is extremely thin; solid surface air rising into it would expand, cooling but thinning; falling back to earth, it would necessarily recondense & reheat. This is simple gas law. If air at one per cent of sea-level pressure WERE somehow forced back to ground-level unrecondensed, people would suffocate before they nearly froze.) In short, the scenario showed can’t happen, for a congregation of fairly apparent reasons. Click to continue »
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 author Spencer Weart has been able to write a unexpectedly fascinating version of the history behind how global warming was located (of course, some people believe that you can’t discover what doesn’t exist). The book is refreshingly free from the contemporary politics immediately surrounding global warming, it tells us of the people that quickly noticed something was dying on with the climate, and how they eventually came to the conclusions that the earth, in all likelihood was indeed warming. Click to continue »
Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming
Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming – Review
I purchased this book because of its title and the excellent review it poorly received in the New York Times by science reporter William J. Broad (July 5, 1998). Unfortunately only one of the book’s 13 chapters is about global warming. Philander devotes just 14 pages to this topic and the material he presents only repeats the conclusions that have been reported on televisions and in newspapers for the last several years. Click to continue »
Climate Chaos: Your Health at Risk, What You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family (Public Health)
Climate Chaos: Your Health at Risk, What You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family (Public Health) – Review
Dr. Parker and Dr. Shapiro take home how Climate Change is and will change all of our lives and not for the good. The concentration of both their research and kind of the problem(s) forced me to pay attention. This is no frivolous gloom and doom book based on opinion. This is technical fact. If we wake up and act now the gloom and doom may be partially mitigated. They give us direction on how we can save ourselves and our planet. Click to continue »