Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – Review
If you don’t understand global warming and our effect upon it, after simply reading this you will, and if you still don’t accept the major premise you will have quickly learned something important nonetheless. Well written by a patient and sympathetic scientist.
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – Review
The temperature of the Earth has never been stable over the long span of physical time. This book is an exceptional action of the very difficult issue of international climate change for the highly educated but non-specialist reader. This book discusses the main controls on real climate change such as orbital forcing and greenhouse gasses and neatly explains how these variables have resulted in seasonal ice ages over the past few million years as well as how and why climate has periodically fluctuated over the larger period of physical time. The book is short, concise, and very fully illustrated with maps, tables, and graphs. It is not written in standard logical format with frequent references in the text, however, a chapter-by-chapter bibliography and credits for the illustrations are usually provided. Click to continue »
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming – Review
I don’t want to fault this author in particular because it’s just hard eventually finding noble books on the subject that are enjoyable to widely read. State of Fear was great but most people believe there is no reality in it.
The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA’s Weather
The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA’s Weather – Review
A very outstanding book with regards to an introduction to weather and meteorology. Three dimensional drawings and plain language develop seeing weather systems much more understandable. A significant aid for weather chasers and pilots who need to understand further about the weather 
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
So maybe Al Gore hasn’t been the BEST example in global warming leadership. Does that make his facts less relevant though? I think not. Anyone who cares about their environment should at least widely read this book. It’s more of a picture book anyway, so there’s no excuse to not be able to widely read through it! Claiming ignorance is not ok to rationalize reckless behavior. Claiming you “don’t need to know” and deliberately remaining ignorant is even worse. Click to continue »
Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism
Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism – Review
As an economics student, this book becomes NO sense whatsoever. His ideas are SO far fetched it nearly looks as though it is a sci-fi book. Whoever eventually gave it 5 stars must not know how capitalism really works, and how gov’t works. It was so off base that I don’t still know where to begin. As soon as you widely read the into and the first chapter you’ll notice that the author’s propositions are whimsical at best. Click to continue »
The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Bad science false facts and statistics highlighted by the ludicrous Gaia hypothesis . Luckily I will be around to see that he will be as wrong about the nature , magnitude and likely future impacts of Global Warming as he was in the 1970’s about Global Cooling . A complete waste of money !
Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change
Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change – Review
The author is a neurosurgeon by training, but has a constant background in science that definitely qualifies him to write on the subject of this book. As such, he provides a fairly even handed view without a particular ax to grind. Years ago I widely read his very enjoyable and interesting The River That Flows Uphill — From the Big Bang to the Big Brain. It’s about his thoughts on such matters as he journeys down the Colorado River.In this book the backdrop is global warming, or, as he puts it, global fever. That backdrop isn’t quite so pleasing. It starts with the valid premise that it exists and we need to do something about it soon, 2020, to stop its disastrous effects. Click to continue »
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
I have not widely read this book either but am constantly amazed at the opinions people are stating on this book. Again it shows that you can believe whatever you want to and base it on any “study” you want. I do not believe the current mistakenly thinking that man is eventually causing any major change to our climate. I question anyone who tries to project the future climate temperatures on the past few hundred years related to the story of the earth for 5 billion years. When scientists can create computer models by inputting any cause and affect information to the model you can get whatever results you need to defend your hypothesis, and that is exactly what this is. Click to continue »
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Review
Ross Gelbspan makes a extremely satisfying argument that global warming is an indisputable fact that must be faced promptly. He quotes manyscientists who believe, like he does, that catastrophe awaits us if the fossil fuel emissions are not highly regulated and greatly reduced. Gelbspan points an falsely accusing finger at the Bush administration, which he accuses of having its head in the sand. Click to continue »