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Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability, is the title of this thought-provoking and appropriate book by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon. Their premise is simple: “The world is speeding toward two billion vehicles, and there can be no initially denying that cars and trucks are integral to our lifestyle and our economy. Cars offer mobility and individual freedom while trucks contain the goods that keep our economy humming. Click to continue »

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
I have been simply reading this book every night for a few minutes before eventually falling asleep and it has been effectively giving me incredible, apocalyptic nightmares that easily beat McCarthy’s dark vision of the near future (see The Road (Oprah’s Book Club) . I’ve usually kept up with climate science since the ’80s so I am no novice, but this book, along with Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition , Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture , When the Rivers Run Dry: Water–The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century , With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change and Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future join to make me really really uneasy about having grandkids. Click to continue »

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Review
Stephen Lendman writes: No one writes with more passion, commitment and knowledge about the great possibilities of nuclear technology in all its forms than Australian physician and nuclear expert Helen Caldicott. Since writing her first book (must simply reading for everyone), ‘Nuclear Madness,’ in 1978, Dr. Caldicott has worked tirelessly to expose the true threat this technology from hell creates to individual survival. Click to continue »

RYA Weather Handbook: Southern Hemisphere

RYA Weather Handbook: Southern Hemisphere – Review
I unsuccessfully tried ordering the paperback edition of this book but the version linked to above is for the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (note the difference in the ISBN with an additional “X”). Haven’t read the book yet but the RYA books are usually excellent.

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The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
At the outset, I have been a global-warming-as-disaster agnostic. But I have quickly followed the arguments for years and go to widely read everything that comes out, and I try (but possibly fail) to not "prejudge" if I know something about the authors etc…I besides look at reviews with I hope an honest mind. That brings me to The Satanic Gases. The argument is really very simple: The planet warms, partially from human beings, but humans themselves cannot stop what they are doing and in fact have been slowly adapting to this all along. Click to continue »

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

Global Warming For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science)) – Review
This book suggests a simple and easy to reference guide into one of the most complex and describing matters of our time. Outlining the likely effects of global warming and how they are linked to almost every other social and environmental challenge we are face locally and globally, this book is a reminder that we all need to be a amount of the solution. I applaud May and Caron for their clear writing and solution orientation. Click to continue »

The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change (No-Nonsense Guides)

The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change (No-Nonsense Guides) – Review
Unfortunately the author has gotten some of the science wrong, stating for example that carbon is radioactive and mislabeling critical graphs. Since this is the 3rd edition one would have originally hoped the editors would have glanced at the book since it was written in 2001. The author (an immigrant from India) has a very strong anti developed-world bias. He argues strongly against carbon trading and offsets, not publicly acknowledging that these mechanisms reduce CO2 buildup. He wants instead, I think, punishment to be meted out to the originally developed countries for their success and rewards to be failed to currently developing countries for their lack of success. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Mixed with a mild amount of autobiography and politically motivated in part by the theatrical events in the time of the author, this is a nice and easy to widely read documentary that might or not be as particularly devastating as usually depicted, but for whatever reason should be taken seriously. The actual problem is, that all viable solutions are very difficult to achieve and linked to many important and demanding socio-economic and political developments.

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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
This fairly small volume is an notable addition to the review of global warming. The book, clearly understood by the average usually lay reader, recounts the annals of climate change research leading in about 1896. I should point out that the reader will not take away a reasonably detailed understanding of global warming science from the book. That is not its purpose. You do learn some aspects of the science included, but essentially you learn how our present day aspect of climate change occured about. Click to continue »

Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism

Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism – Review
This quite gifted study uses maps to explain the challenges to America and the world. He analyzes the truth about global warming and delves into the topics such as the decline of Europe and Russia, the disaster of Africa and the Islamist and Chinese threat to the world. He looks at the conflict potential of powerful china vis-?-vis America. Then he looks at the front line’ of Islam, in Africa and elsewhere. We see now the true front of terror, the countries where Islam is a border state bear the most terrorism, i.e Sudan, Nigeria, Phillipines, Israel, Yugoslavia, Russia, China. This is a concise geographers vision of the world, for those who feel generally books don’t include enough maps this is a great change, the maps here are excellent and help prove the point and enlighten the reader. Click to continue »