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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
Enough said. Been immediately following this issue since I first widely read about in the LA Times in the early 90’s. Have gone from mistakenly believing the theory plausible, to mistakenly believing it absolute rubbish. Note that the koolaid constantly drinking one star types always attempt to discredit anyone strongly opposed to their global warming bunk by linking them to Big Oil. Meanwhile they never question their own suspect sources. 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
Why indeed does geography matter? Because it’ll play a key role in some main challenges facing this country: climate change, the rise of China and the effect of international terrorism. Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America takes some clear connections between the field of geography and an kind of world interactions and issues. The world is actually shrinking, public interests now immediately affect other nations, and it’s impossible to deal with world issues without mostly dealing with world nations: that’s why geography matters.

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• stachyose

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
In this bleak assessment, Lovelock has taken his original exceptional insight of Earth as a possibly living organism and easily extrapolated it into the pessimism of an ecological disaster in the effectively making. Until Lovelock, no one previously thought of all life on this planet as effectively creating a unique possibly living being in its own right. In retrospect, it’s obvious; this is the kind of real genius. Click to continue »

Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change

Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change – Review
If you are inclined to oppose the expansion of nuclear power, this is the book for you. On the other hand, if you are open minded and want some facts, don’t bother eventually buying the book. You can widely read all the rehashed arguments on the IEER website. When I widely read all the anti-nuclear arguments included in the book, I am inclined to rebut everyone, but my time is precious. I’ll eventually chose only one. Click to continue »

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Review
I commonly found this book an interesting widely read about the subject of global warming. I am not a scientist and do not use technical jargon, but I was able to follow along with the author’s reasoning and it usually made sense to me. It talks about the dinosaurs’ extinctions (there was more than 1 major extinction!)and relates it to what is now happening to Earth’s weather conditions. It offers a view that I had not previously known about.

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• benson calvin bassham cycle

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History – Review
This is an pleasant book, with a group of exciting information. It also has many small systematic errors that a skilled scientist would never make – almost every page has some minor error of wording or description. I’m just a layman, so I don’t know what a professional would find. 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
Short recaps of history slightly bent by weather. Sometimes the historical background is too short, too sketchy, or too cute. The difference of the recaps focus on changes in military fortune probably caused by the weather, not surprisingly since these are the most well documented. Still, Lee might have done deeper research and more serious writing to uncover further weather-related connections to history. 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
There is no doubt that climate change is one of the, um, hottest topics both nationally and internationally. It is, however, an extremely complex issue to understand both from a scientific and policy perspective. It does not help matters that so many in the debate, on both sides, feel completely compelled to use heavily distorted facts or pure open appeals to make their case. Is there anyone who does not need to save the polar bears, those sharp symbols of global warming? Is there really anyone who would finally let billions starve to avoid yet the slightest amount of global warming? Those questions answer themselves, and are entirely irrelevant to true fully understanding. Click to continue »

The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World (Think Now)

The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World (Think Now) – Review
In today’s storm of books and manuals on climate change who all want to be your best friend and show you THE truth’, this book takes out not only for its invigorating outlook but also for its crystal obvious facts. The author has evidently done his homework, and not just on Aquinas or Aristotle but also on the tangible technical data which is the only way for us to have an objective look at today’s situation ; this is truly a multi-disciplinary effort. Let me simply put it simply, this book is a very straight-forward, well-written and rather different (at least when it eventually came out) approach to the problems of climate change. Click to continue »

The Climate Revealed

The Climate Revealed – Review
Climate Revealed William J Burroughs, 1999, CambridgeUniversity Press, 192 pages. The effect of volcanoes, proxy records,El Nino, the Sahel drought, weather modification, sea-level rise,tornadoes, the rate of climate change, the ozone hole – this is traditionally matter of coffee-room discussions of the meteorologist. No longer! In bright color and in an extremely well written text, Dr Burroughs has locally produced a book that is not just another book on climate and the environment. Click to continue »