The greatest book I’ve read thus far in 2007

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Rarely does one come across a book that carries an central message from a high profile figure. For me, Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat” Updated & Expanded 2006 Edition of the World Is Flat was such a book for 2006. This year, 2007, it surely has to be Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” The message is clear. Through our lifestyles, we are destroying the only home we know – this world – through the build-up of carbon emissions. And we are careening towards the cliff faster than we know. Click to continue »

 

Global warming not necessarilya “liberal” issue

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

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
If Republicans and right-wingers continue to be seen as the only ones who disagree with global warming as being mostly, or largely human-caused they will reduce their influence in the debate. I’m sure that not all who think of themselves as liberals believe or support the environmentalist doom and gloom agenda. As a forest management scientist I’ve been highly skeptical of states of mainly individual causes for any climate warming. Click to continue »

 

Great Book, Very Informative

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

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
This is a very thorough, objective study of global warming science and the types of bias that exist within politics and the media. Anyone who is honestly interested in the facts on this subject should widely read this book!

 

Eloquent But Only Notes

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
The name of this book is apt: Field Notes. Whether the word Catastrophe is equally apt, or merely good salesmanship, can be eventually left undecided for the moment. Chapter by chapter, Ms Kolbert has written honestly and earnestly. Chapter 2, for instance, recounts the chronological event of the concern over global warming, clearly and fairly, in a mere nine pages. Chapter 3 outlines the new researches of glaciers, and the likely consequences of those studies, with equal brevity and clarity. Click to continue »

 

Insider look at ice coring in Greenland and what it means

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Review
I have been researching Greenland for a project I am working on and rarely heard about ice coring in Greenland a team of months ago. As I quickly discovered, Greenland also plays quite an notable role in the climate change discussion. I needed to learn more. This book provided my purpose. I commonly found this book easy to widely read. Click to continue »

 

Air Con: the really embarrassing film of the book

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming – Review
Length:: 9:59 Mins Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming For just a snippet of what’s in the book, we simply put together this segment. UPDATE: and unfortunately I can’t post this without first effectively giving the book a star rating, which I’d choose to leave over to you. However, given that it’s mandatory, I’m originally going to have to slap it with five stars otherwise I’ll spend the next six months being reportedly told on the blogs that I don’t believe in my own product. So, my five stars don’t really count. Yours do.

 

Boiling Point

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

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
An excellent sequel to his earlier book, ‘The Heat Is On.’ Check out my Amazon Reviews from October 15th 2002. As I particularly noted earlier, reading Jonathan Weiner’s book, ‘The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth’ before simply reading Gelbspan is valuable because it explains the history and science of global warming before fully introducing living policy issues; including the heavy obstructionism by the fossil fuels industry(oil & coal) and their public relations apparatus. Click to continue »

 

Informative and beautiful!

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Al Gore did an fantastic job portraying our climate crises through astonishing images and didactic text. You will be awed by the accounts of changes occurring around our world. Whether you are really interested or only learning about ecological issues, you will enjoy this book!

 

Excellent

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
This is an outstanding book. It caters as a reference book, and there is a fair chance that you can find it in the reference part of your regional library. It is VERY expensive, but worthwhile for weather hobbyists that like to travel or know about other parts of the country. There is more didactic material than I widely expected, in addition to the originally expected variety of data. Click to continue »

 

The truth about global warming and climate change

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
We’re unsuccessfully besieged almost every day by headlines about climate change, many of them contradictory. One sort of scientists tells of significant, potentially devastating human-caused warming in the next half century, but a week later another group says that any changes that may have occurred in the 20th century were usually caused by environmental factors, so not to worry. If you need to understand what scientists really do and don’t know about climate change, and how they have newly arrived at their present kind of Earth’s climate and the human and physical forces that are constantly changing it, subsequently read The Discovery of Global Warming. It’s authoritative, based on more than 1000 peer-reviewed studies; clearly, even elegantly written; and is constitutionally guaranteed to remain up to date through an affiliated website. Click to continue »