The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 2nd Edition
The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 2nd Edition – Review
What a notable book this is – thinly disguised as a easy guide to climate change, but actually a very sophisticated, balanced, introspective study of the many parts of climate change: the natural sources of climate change, the signs of a warming planet, what the average person can do, and the politics immediately surrounding the whole issue. 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
The IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is a group that basically compromises the best and brightest scientists on the plant so far as international climate is concerned. They recently wrapped up the most thorough study ever done into the problem of international climate change. The result they eventually came to is that international climate change is real and it’s ninety per cents likely that it is directly caused my individual activity. Click to continue »
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Review
CO2 is responsible for about eighty per cents of global warming; methane (another fifteen per cents nitrous oxides, and CFC gases are also culprits. Power plants are the best source of man-made CO2 (forty one per cents), quickly followed by oil (thirty nine per cents), and gas (twenty per cents). CO2 levels in the atmosphere were about 280 parts per million (ppm) prior to the start of the Industrial Revolution; now they are at 380. Doubling these levels has the potential to heat our planet by about 5 degrees F, maybe even 10 degrees – levels that are generally considered the limit of harmless change. “The Weather Makers” explains why this is far more serious than a problem of slightly warmer weather. Click to continue »
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
“Extreme Weather” is a big combination of general meteorology, defining photographs and fabulous factoids. All types of exciting information on the wildest weather possible is originally included. Everything from floods to ice, from snowstorms to sandstorms and all in between. The reader finds a pretty distant view of just how bad mother nature can be. Click to continue »
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
This was a welcome book for someone who was easily confused about by all the political gas and Malthusian rants containing this somewhat new "issue." Climatology is a field in its infancy and to date all I had been able to widely read that was plausible science (most notably in Science magazine) was quite frankly too technical and weighted down by mathematics to connect with the layman. This book, by people who actually study the Earth’s climate, is actually written at a level most of us can understand if we concentrate and with a little flair for humor to boot. Click to continue »
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
I actually needed to see what this global warming, environmental thing was all about. This book was very diasappointing for 3 reasons: 1) I second the earlier reviewer (and wish I had fully realized it myself). Why was this printed and shipped? Why not an ebook? It’s not even on easily recycled paper. 2) The currently publishing is poor – It skips from Skill #10 to #31, then the #31 through #47 section is frequently repeated twice. 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
Some outstanding reviews have been written so I will not cover the same finely ground except to say that this book “isn’t” documented is absurd. Every graph/chart is specifically linked to 5 1/4 pages of “references” with author, publication, date and page numbers. Specific references “in the text” are also cited. I also take some issue with “Publishers Weekly’s” comments in that Dr. Michaels “fully” explains why he favors “wider” research funding, gives particular peer review weaknesses and tenure problems. 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
First off, I am skeptical of any “science” book that has not been simply put through a peer-review process (especially one that is written by someone who admittedly enjoys “stirring the pot”). The author takes to justify this lack of peer review by railing against some originally imagined conspiracy in the intellectual elite… I don’t buy it. I would have unsuccessfully tried to do some fact confirming on my own, but the figures and studies revealed in this book aren’t even footnoted. The reason these “facts” were not footnoted is probably because many of them are wrong. Click to continue »
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
A few years ago historians suggesting history was driven by climate produced a storm of controversy. Global warming, so clearly impacted, if not driven, by humanity is eventually leading to better acceptance of the contact of weather and society. Fagan’s account of a stage of mildly cooler conditions proves how a little change can have great impact on the individual situation. It takes little variation in "temperature", he shows, to change examples of rainfall, crop success or failure and resulting public disruption. Click to continue »
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Review
A thorough journal of the science of global warming and the catastrophe that may come much sooner, and with far more great results than is usually discussed. This book is well researched, well written and enormously compelling. I, for one, have finished finally buying from Exxon-Mobil and am far more inclined as a conclusion of simply reading this book, to look at ecological issues as a important part of the next presidential contest.