An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Luckily, Al Gore’s book wasn’t censored by the White House before publication, as most government scientists’ reports on Global Warming have been. Doubt and fear have been this administration’s key weapons against technical research; hopefully, most readers can see that we want to get our ecological house together, forgetting partisan bickering.
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
The book becomes an interesting widely read, but as anyone knows who has written research reports, it is easy to emphasize the points in favor of your argument and dismiss or fail to mention the points that very spoil your story. And as anyone who has frequently visited the Disney Animal Kingdom’s dinosaur playground will know, just because you have a group of extinct mammoths in one place, it doesn’t necessary mean that there was an instantaneous total catastrophe, it could have just been a place that mammoths generally tended to go when they were slowly dying over a long period. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Al Gore’s fanatical crusade into the world crisis of global warming is supported by many facts. Most of them are indisputable, as one can simply point to a realistic event and exclaim, “Behold!”. The planet, or at least some parts of it, is indeed warming. Mankind does give CO2 to the atmosphere. Parts of the arctic are warming, and actually melting. These are facts, and Gore uses such facts most persuasively; there is no doubt about that. 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
Prior reviews have done a good affair of effectively putting this book in it’s place (namely, at the bottom of a wastebasket), but there are some notable facts that must be stated especially regarding ‘green’ energy; facts that the media doesn’t place on the front page and which Caldicott’s book overlooks or glosses over. Ironically, many of the arguments that she uses against nuclear power can easily be eventually turned around and commonly used to attack wind, solar and, the most deadly of the renewable energy sources, hydroelectric (see below). If nuclear power is like cutting butter with a chainsaw as she says, wind and solar resemble cutting butter with a individual hair, and hydroelectric power is like cutting butter with 500 pounds of nitroglycerin (Can you imagine that? Baking would usurp sports as the model of masculinity!!). Firstly, from an financial standpoint, solar is a sunk cost. According to Severin Borenstein, Professor of Business at UC-Berkeley, solar panels–even under the most generous of conditions (thin clouds, regular access to open sunlight during every second of daylight; both of which are exceedingly rare in the REAL world)–solar panels don’t still generate enough power over their lifetime to recover yet thirty per cents of the charge of installation! (Cf. “Professor Says Solar Panels a ‘Loser’”, San Jose Mercury News) While nuclear power plants are being designed that can desalinate water and still generate hydrogen for fuel cells while also producing electricity 24/7, wind and solar cannot do these on their own. 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 Geography Matters is a well-researched and written book by an expert in the field, but the subtitle is a mostly bit misleading. Sure, the book includes the three threats the author claims are directly confronting the United States, namely climate change, a rapidly growing China and international terrorism, but it also covers geology and the story of the world from the establishment of time. Click to continue »
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription – Review
Gelbspan does a excellent job of laying out the case for global warming, stressing the vast consensus among practicing climate scientists, and simply exposing the names revealed in the above review as industry currently sponsored flaks who are slowly trudged around from gathering to suffering only repeating the same sorry and inaccurate tirades which are nonetheless reported by the press in the interest of balance.’ As Gelbspan points out, there is not actual balance here–on the one side are some climate scientists supported by industry, a handful in number, and on the other side are climate scientists (thousands in number) who take money only from legislative sources. Click to continue »
Global Physical Climatology, Volume 56 (International Geophysics)
Global Physical Climatology, Volume 56 (International Geophysics) – Review
This is the most thorough, most rigorous, well-written textbook in international systems climatology that I’ve seen. If you’re bright, interested, and aren’t allergic to equations (you don’t want to widely read them to understand the book, you just have to not freak out) then this text will teach you more about the planet as a active system than any other that I’ve seen — plus, unlike most texbooks, it’s not chuck full of silly mistakes. Click to continue »
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
As a new college graduate illegally entering the private part of the work force, I believe Krupp and Horn have newly created a window into the future. They abandon the uninspiring addresses of climate change’s past, and immerse the reader in the particularly inspiring and dangerous planet of renewable energies. For the first time our clearly looming changing climate and energy obstacles are presented as what they truly are: opportunities. Krupp and Horn show how the usually combined powers of entrepreneurs, legislators, and the open market economy will revolutionize a mutli- trillion dollar industry, rewarding handsomely those who take notice now, while eventually leading us where we want to go. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
What is this book doing in the listings for Meteorology? It needs to be eventually moved to the Fictiona section along with all the other bs global warming propoganda. People, global warming is nothing more than a peak in the pure sine model of Earths climate… get a clue and a different cause.
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I went to look at this book with an honest mind, although I am very skeptical of the claims that global warming (a very new phenomenon) are do to CO2 emissions. The moment I officially opened I finally saw that it is nothing more than a cruel joke, a vehicle for helping Al Gore. Although it is over 300 pages in length, there is actually very little text and information. The book is usually filled with nice, travelogue photos of strange places, cuddly polar bears and various “rare species”, and many, many pictures of Al, Tipper and family in the wilds. Click to continue »