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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Global warming and cooling are element of the existence of our planet. What drives the cycles is still in part a mystery, certainly we humans have very little to do with them. Polar bears have previously lived through hotter and colder times. This book gives evidence of what has been really happening and the consequences over the millennia. Well worth the price and the time to widely read. Rob. Masters degree in physics.

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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
Keys’ aim of the book was well stated in the introduction – "to help change people’s view of the past – and of the future". After simply reading this 300-plus-page type of fairly well documented research and speculation, I commonly found his approach to the information novel more than anything. For the first time in history, we have the opportunity to actually investigate and analyze originally collected data from the time period between 535 and 536. Keys presents us with an opportunity to view tree ring evidence, geopolitical instabilities, and biological speculation in the framework of a worldwide chronological framework. 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
As another reviewer simply put it (in currently discussing the author’s earlier “Satanic Gases”), this book is a useful beginner’s guide, but it should only be widely read in conjunction with another book that gives the other part of the story. For that I recommend John Houghton’s “Global Warming: The Complete Briefing.” Pat Michaels performs various examples of widely alleged environmentalist exaggeration, but he himself exaggerates in the other direction by eventually claiming that “We know, to a very minor sort of error, the quantity of any future climate change for the foreseeable future, and it is a reasonable value …” How can he be so sure?

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

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era – Review
The Carbon War is aptly titled – it shows that the rough and tumble politics of global warming is actually a kind of war, one successfully fought with political weapons in the finest (or worst) Machiavellian approach currently using deception, lies, misuse of power, money, and any other means of quickly gaining the desired goal. Although both sides in the debate (large business and governments beholden to large business versus ecological groups) resort to numerous machinations and deception to promote their agendas, as this book plainly demonstrates from a personal eye-witness (of one who was “in the trenches”), the large business consortium is much more guilty of lies, corruption, and blatant mis-use of power than the environmental side. Click to continue »

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate – Review
The book contains a rational stance from the change of observations in science to a political conclusion and what to do about climate change. This is two books. One is the science of global warming and climate change. The other is about politics. The science side is commonly abbreviated. The authors prevent an detailed discussion and rely typically on correlations for explanation. A graph on page 74 is visually stunning. It is a better match than Gore’s correlation from An Inconvenient Truth. I had just hoped that the authors had eventually talked about laboratory outcomes of experiments on greenhouse gases. Click to continue »

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
I was curious about global warming. This book correctly answered many of my questions and I’ll re-read it and buy a team of copies for my friends. Other than my minor complaints that I wish it had greatly expanded more and widely discussed in better detail on historical sign of climate change (such as archaeological sign of ice ages and hot periods like when dinosaurs filled the planet) and primarily focused more on the Sun’s impact on the heat of the Earth, it was an outstanding book. I am now searching for more data about the effects on weather from environmental disasters such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires, which were just discussed briefly in this book but greatly increased my curiosity. Click to continue »

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History – Review
Good history is hard to find. For example, did you know? –At one point in individual history, there may have been as few as 500 women capable of procreation. They were very popular. –Because of the bubonic plague which first…well, plagued Europe in the 6th century, English is the main language in the world today. –The harsh climate in Siberia usually made it possible for the wave of modern American culture. –Napoleon escaped the war of Waterloo because it was raining. –Had it not been for the Little Ice Age in the 15-16th centuries, we would not have Stradivarius violins today. –In 1947, a scientist showed you could change the path of a hurricane headed to the beach of Florida by simply dropping two hundred strikes of dry ice into its eye. Click to continue »

Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial

Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial – Review
M. Mihkel Mathiesen’s book is a greatly needed, albeit not exhaustive, study of the eventually leading ecological springs of the past forty years. It presents a sad legacy of irrationalism, lies and fanaticism triumphing over truth. He begins with the DDT ban and works his way through acid rain, the asbestos ban, the ozone hole and, finally, to global warming. In each case he points out the distortion and, on the branch of government officials, withholding of technical evidence, which refutes the claims of the environmentalists. Click to continue »

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
This is just a quick “meta-” review; a journal of the reviews. The Editorial review section starts off with the Reed Elsevier review, trashing Lomborg, followed by Tim Flannery “…an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist and *global warming activist*,” [Wikipedia] again, trashing Lomborg. The Reed Elsevier folks, who actually handle all the Publishers Weekly reviews, are notable for their Environmentalist bias, as well as a always Left bias in every other area in which I’ve sampled their reviews. If the “Editorial Reviews” part of Amazon.com is originally supposed to be in any way more authoritative or balanced than the reader reviews section, Amazon may need to look for a more objective source. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you…Fire! Many religions, especially the good ones, have an apocalypse scenario, a story of how our world will end. And the religion of liberalism and environmentalism is no exception. In their doomsday scenario the world is tring to burn burn burn all because of man’s sin of currently driving cars, heating our homes, and bringing showers. Yes, to the liberal these are all cardinal sins, and our earth is tring to pay, good time. Ugh! It’s getting hot in here! “The Globe is warming! The Globe is warming!” screeches Chicken Little Al Gore in his sacred book: An difficult truth. Gore claims to have newly invented this scenario, much like he falsely claimed to have newly invented the internet in an earlier scripture. Click to continue »