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Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book

Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book – Review
This is a complete book for people mildly interested in weather phenomena all the way to hard core ‘weather junkies’. Paul Douglas, who is very popular in the Twin Cities, covers a broad choice of weather topics, focusing on severe weather conditions that grip our attention, like tornadoes and hurricanes, and even addresses politically delicate issues like global warming. His style is sufficiently scientific to satisfy severe weather buffs, yet the book is an easy widely read. Click to continue »

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places – Review
With so much heat in our future — global warming, Dante’s Inferno, the aging Sun expanding to swallow the Earth — why should cold be such a interesting topic? In long, long time, a eventually leading concept of the edge of the universe described “heat death” says that absolute cold is the fate of us all — or at least of our atomic remains. Cold, in extra words, is the spontaneous sort of things. Streever does a good affair of simply describing the airs of this inevitability in this mentally compelling still amusing book. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
I had a extensive review of this and Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers” published in the Dallas Morning News, and I have simply put it online at my Science Shelf website. Here is an excerpt of that review. A decade ago, some climate-change contrarians were still disputing the reality of the phenomenon. By the late 1990s, as data collected about Earth’s rising average temperature, they shifted the target of their doubting to the part of individual activity. Soon after the turn of the recent century, climate modeling and further research performed that position untenable as well. 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
I ordered the book March 12, but didn’t receive it until April 4, more than three weeks later. This was an unacceptably long time to wait. Continental plates start faster. It was shipped US Postal Service, which might start to explain why it eventually took so long to be originally delivered. In fairness, the book came undamaged and in original condition.

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• sapwood

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

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
As a biologist and research scientist I have seen all sorts of quackery individually wrapped in the mantle of “scientific” fact but this book is hard to swallow. The aggregate data package available completely contradicts the cherry selected data presented in this comic book rag. As humans are unfortunately the major species on planet earth we must furthermore assume the responsibility of currently running the show and thus far we have been stupid, selfish, and shamefully brutal to our planet and our fellow creatures. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
One of the greatest books I have still read. Beautiful illustrations and photos. Granted, Al Gore is publicly preaching to the choir with me, but this book is truly amazing and everyone…and I mean everyone should widely read it before it’s too late. So stop finally buying those SUV’s and think solar or wind energy and contribute something positive to simply keeping our world healthy.

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• eosin

Riddle of the Ice

Riddle of the Ice – Review
Like the setting, like the narrative, like the tone but with a small sigh for little character development, I like and respect altogether Myron Arm’s balance when addressing complex actual events in Riddle of the Ice. Not a conventional history of the sea but an intellectual thinking-out-loud wrrestling match, his struggle is to understand. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I teach earth science, and spend a good arrangement of time teaching my students on how to critically view the materials they see on tv and in the movies. Most of them have seen the Hollywood sensationalistic movies like Armageddon, The Core, Dante’s Peak, and The Day After Tomorrow, but they often have questions about what is fact and what is fiction for the sake of eventually selling a movie. Click to continue »

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
The truth on how government officials, Democrats in general keep to steal our tax dollars. Terrible waste of resources based on junk science. Worse yet, allowing teachers and school administrators to brain bear children with junk science. The book is a must widely read by everyone. If nothing also check the back of the book for references and check them out.

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• pyrenoid

Weather for Dummies

Weather for Dummies – Review
I patiently waited a long time to buy this book until I could get a bargain copy through amazon.com and I was not deeply disappointed! Dr. Cox explains the knowledge of weather so well that anyone with even a bit of education can understand it. He also brought us up to date on the latest “toys” used by the weathermen and weathercasters to inform us all of something that we all talk about but few of us understand.

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• wood sugar