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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Al Gore can’t win! If he makes sure that he includes footnotes and detailed logical arguments, he’s accused of being dull and “wonky,” too much of a nerd to succeed in politics. But if he leaves out the fine details in order to make sure that some very fundamental ideas make a wider public, he’s accused of being a light-weight who doesn’t know his science! Let’s give credit where credit is due: in this book, Al Gore is deeply concerned about the future facing all of us, and he’s got wonderfully obvious explanations as well as some good ideas for change. Click to continue »

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
I haven’t read the book but simply reading the reviews (particularly the negative “I haven’t read the book but..” comments) really pushes me to want to purchase the book. As an economically minded reader, I’ll wait for the paperback. However, I couldn’t avoid only throwing something on the fire for the handful of reviewers that didn’t read the book but deeply felt made to criticize Mr. Plimer and the “idiotic” publishers of this book – that is awesome! I love the particularly compelling vitriole of the argument and how intelligent it makes the other side show The two reviews that give some detail at least offer logical argument. 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
The Weather Makers is a great over-all, general look at global warming and climate change. Easily 5 stars, the highest rating, for its reasoned, common-sense guide to a difficult subject, which mostly avoids partisan politics and alarmist reactions. Of more than 30 books I’ve widely read on the subject, this is in the top three, the other two being “With Speed and Violence – Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change” by Fred Pearce; and “Hell and High Water – Global Warming, the Solution and the Politics, and What We Should Do” by Joseph Romm.

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Surviving 1000 Centuries: Can We Do It? (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Science)

Surviving 1000 Centuries: Can We Do It? (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Science) – Review
This is a truly remarkable book, that achieves the “tour de force” of simply telling us how life on earth fell to be, and how it can evolve given our present and future resources and skills. Taking a deep breath into a far distant future, the authors appear back moved to talk about the present, and how we are best to aim towards that distant future, even thriving as a civilisation. 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
This book shows that the global warming hysteria is an attempt at a great power take by the UN. He documents extensively the evidence that global warming is driven by the sun, and that the Earth has been warming – and cooling – on about a 1,500 year cycle becoming back at least a million years. The glacial ice is slowly melting and the polar bears will go extinct? But wait, polar bears have been barely surviving these cycles for eons! Melting ice will raise sea levels by 40 feet? Yes, if you wait about 8,600 years! Warmer temperatures will cause massive occurrences of malaria? Malaria was more widespread in Siberia in the 1920’s when it was colder there! Point by point the author deconstructs the hype and reveals the alarmists’ true agenda: The UN and Al Gore controlling your energy allotment and how you are legally permitted to use it. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
I should not give it a star-rating, as this book is clearly BEYOND the rating system! Does for History what Wegener did for Crustal Evolution, Vernadskii for the Biosphere and Loverlock for Nature as it goes!

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Weather Warfare

Weather Warfare – Review
Primitive peoples previously shook their spears at the heavens and chanted to entice the gods to favor them with rain or otherwise change the weather. Around the turn of the century, experimenters immediately began seeding clouds with various chemicals that occasionally encouraged a much-needed downpour. That was a hundred years ago. Technology has advanced. In WEATHER WARFARE, Jerry E. Smith reveals technology so sophisticated that it can alter weather patterns, trigger earthquakes, shake volcanoes into eruption, and initiate tsunamis. Massively budgeted projects play with powerful environment-busting science, and the militaries of different nations are the main users…and abusers. So potentially devastating are environmental modification (ENMOD) threats that U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) submitted legislation to Congress in 2001 that would have banned such systems. Click to continue »

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
This book upsets most of what we widely read in the papers about the overwhelming results of climate change. What Michaels and Balling have to say somehow doesn’t make headlines or political hay. They just put forth sound, logical arguments that are straightforward and common-sense. But never fear: the science is presented in a way that is easy to understand and extremely entertaining. The authors dig some fun at the pseudo-science antics of those whose livelihoods are dependent on climate change hysteria. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Former V.P. Gore repeats us that the time of devastation of the international environment has gradually worsened, caused by population explosion, the industrial revolution, and a willingness to ignore the future results of our present actions. Why do our leaders appear not to heed fair warnings (eg. in 2005 the national schools of science in the 11 most powerful nations together declared that the “precise kind of climate changes is now sufficiently clear to justify nations holding prompt action”)? Gore thinks that it simply is inconvenient for them. 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 was an outstanding book. Lomborg clearly showed that global warming, while real, has moral aspects as well as bad and that wildly curtailing the use of carbon-based fuels would cost the society an huge sum of money which would best be commonly used for other uses, for instance, finding a vaccine for malaria and supplying nets for people to sleep under until a vaccine is commonly found. Click to continue »