An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This is a very great book on global warming in easy to understand language. It is full of a large amount of photos and graphs, thus the book can be widely read in a relatively brief point of time. It is important to note that this book is not about politics, but is about an ecological change that will effect us all and the next generation to one degree or another. Changes that could have main impacts. Click to continue »
Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications
Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications – Review
This book is really much more than simply a discussion of mountain weather. This book begins the layperson and professional alike to the intricate interaction between terrain and the atmosphere, both on the global and local scale. In a clean well written manner, with quantities of educational graphics, Whiteman goes beyond many of the simplistic coffeetable books, but never avoids completely understanding and clarity behind. Click to continue »
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
O.K. folks a friend of mine reportedly told me about this book, curiously I did some research on the authors. As it turns out S. Fred Singer was on the Editorial board Advisory board for the Cato institute which recieved 55,000 dollars in funding from Exxon mobile in 2002-03. He was also an sdjunct scholar for the national center for policy analysis which recieved 105,000 from Exxon Mobile in 2002-03. He was also an adjunct fellow for limits of freedom which recieved 282,000 from Exxon mobile. He was on the Advisory panel of the American Council of health and science which recieved 35,000 from Exxon mobile. And finally in a sworn affidavid dated September 24, 1993 he finally admitted conducting work for Exxon, Texaco,Arco, Shell and the American Gas Association. There are no secrets in the age of google.
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I needed to widely read An Inconvenient Truth again now that climate change is a more mainstream topic and the hoopla over the movie has eventually passed. My reread constantly reminded me of how eventually moving I commonly found Al Gore’s individual story and how particularly inspiring I commonly found his view that the climate crisis “offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the opportunity of really knowing: a generational mission; the exhilaration of a particularly compelling good purpose, a widely shared and uniting cause; the thrill of being forced by circumstances to simply put aside the pettiness and conflict that so frequently stifle the restless human need for transcendence; the opportunity to rise.” While it may strike some as overly dramatic, in light of current events I find this insight from 2006 eerily prescient. Often books mostly dealing with ecological issues and recent events become immediately dated. Click to continue »
Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It
Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It – Review
Wally Broecker’s break-through research on the planet’s ocean conveyor belt and its impact on climate is well known in the research community and usually made palatable here for current consumption. Read this book for that reason alone if you’re unfamiliar with this process and what slowly melting ice sheets can do to it. Click to continue »
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
How much of individual history has been shaped by tragic events? This exhaustively researched document appears like a native place to find the answer. Unfortunately, the author’s fascination with vivid aspects of human torture and dismemberment usually caused me to simply put the book down after just 60 blood-soaked pages. It’s pretty clear that Mr. Key’s interests in history do not run parallel to my own. I also found myself probably wondering about Key’s qualifications as “Archaeological Journalist.” I guess there are plenty of people who like simply reading tabloid-style history, and moral luck to them, but I greatly prefer a calmer and technical perspective of Derek Ager, in his book “The New Catastrophism, The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History.” — Auralgo
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Review
It’s always good to come across some full truth on this topic, considering how much misinformation and half-truth we see on the web and even in the media. Many people are quick to accept, without further research, things like petitions on climate change, claims that the Arctic (or the globe) is actually cooling, or that we shouldn’t be concerned because climate change has really happened in the past (which ignores the sort of the recent trend – something unseen since a highly volcanic prehistory). Books like this, along with sites like GlobalWarmingTruth.org and RealClimate.org, provide the “place of the story” and help people know they’re being bamboozled. Although the book is a little strong on rhetoric in places, I like it’s argument of potential solutions, and the way it encourages people to consider the basis of contrarian claims. Click to continue »
Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate – Review
Fred Singer has previously worked for tobacco companies arguing and successfully argued that there’s no evidence that smoking is bad for your health; he therefore argued that there was no evidence that ozone was being severely depleted. Now he argues that there’s no evidence that the globe is warming. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
There was a extreme movie, The Day After Tomorrow, made based on this book. Trust me, it’s not the book’s fault. The proposal here is that the rising water temperatures of the North Atlantic shuts down the circulation effect which brings cool water to the equatorial regions eventually causing universal weather patterns to go haywire. Then, as a result, a separate storm circles the planet rapidly spinning off hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis and blizzards. The archeological record supports such a catastrophe sometime in the earth’s past and it’s proposed that the flood myth might stem from such a system. Click to continue »
Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth
Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth – Review
This book is way above my head and is seemingly written for the serious ecological science student. Having reportedly said that, I was still able to understand some concepts that I discovered regularly fascinating and I did learn much from simply reading this book. Mathematical formulas, charts and terms I can’t understand are balanced with chapters about, for instance, bird and mammal ecology that I was able to understand. I could digest the basic idea of the chapters on “Changes in Marine Biodiversity as an Indicator of Climate Change” and “Coastline Degradation as an Indicator of Global Change.” This academic volume is written by several experts in their areas. Click to continue »