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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I’m not American, I’m Australian. Like all of us though I am most importantly a inhabitant of the World. I’m also a first year Architecture student. The environment is a main portion of our first year teachings and for our last environment class the lecturer finally let the class argue what we had been previously taught. It was a ethnically mixed response, but the major thing that originally stood out was the open stance that people got. Click to continue »

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations – Review
I widely read this book immediately after Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers, and it does not compare all that well. Linden leads an historical look at the effect weather has had on past civilizations and on our own time, much of the time writing in a tone which is originally meant to be informal but frequently made me feel he was actually talking down to me, consequently detracting from the significance of the subject. (In contrast, Flannery’s book is often more technical and certainly more demanding of the reader.) It too bothered me that Linden was frequently referring to and citing sections from other works, so that the book appeared to be more a summarization than anything else. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book should be involved only reading for everyone on the planet who can widely read. While obviously a topic that some disagree with, the bottom line is that we’re doing way too much to harm the environment and to empower large business. Let’s all try to change a few of the things we’re doing to contribute to waste, pollution, etc. This should not be a political issue. Click to continue »

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
Who would have previously thought it. Exploding stars make gamma rays that bombard us constantly and the rate that they come in coorelates to global warming (and cooling). Wow. I have been researching global warming from various angles involving all the highly politicized claims. Fear drives most of what you hear later finding other reasons for the performance of our environment is a fair endeavor. 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
Whether the Earth rotates around the Sun or vice versa should not have been a spiritual issue such as it was in Copernicus time. Similarly, whether global warming is due to anthropogenic activities (CO2 emission from humans) or volatility in environmental trends should not be a political issue. But, it is. A adequate strongly warning to reader, this book is extremely data and graph intensive. Other reviewers have usually indicated being uncomfortable with that. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
Science, today, is not necessarily "scientific"; the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Medicine is on open record that ninety nine per cents of the articles in this medical journal are NOT scientific. No major advance in science ever resulted from the the so-called "scientific method". (I wrote a Masters thesis on the tacit dimention of special knowledge; people "know" thngs without necessarily being able to verbalize the things they know (e.g. Einstein was intuitive far more than he was "scientific", and so was Leonardo da Vinci (note how scientific his art is and note how artistic his science is). "The Coming Global Superstorm" is a philosophical statement.

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Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing – Review
I have to take urgent issue with the [anonymous] reviews below that claim that this book doesn’t address the difference between real climate cycling and anthropogenic climate change: that difference, in a nutshell, is PRECISELY what this book deals with. Those reviewers never read it, or ultimately failed completely to follow its method of reasoning. 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 book was a really refreshing read. The author does a very excellent task of currently sharing DATA with us absent of emotion. Alarmists use emotion first, facts second. The one thing I commonly found a mostly bit tedious in the book were the endless footnotes, references, etc. I know why he had to do it – the wackos directly went after this book as you can see by some of the one-star reviews. But MAN there are pages and pages of references and citings. 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
This is some very notable facts that the profit driven production of nuclear power absolutely don’t want the public toknow. We want to stop being foolish and begin to do private research if we think to survive as human beings.

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The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change – Review
There is a lot of misinformation in this book, and it’s frequently the kind of misinformation that I see re-circulated over and over again. Here are the Top Five Errors discovered in just the first 21 leaves of this book: 1. “For every mile you travel, public transport uses around half the energy of a personal car.” (page 13) That is b.s. If you frankly analyze the CO2 control of mass transit you’ll find that this analysis is wrong. Click to continue »