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Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations

Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations – Review
This book is an excellent complement to David Key’s book on "Catastrophe", and I commonly found it a worthwhile fast widely read. It has one really large core idea that ties environmental, political, economic, and cultural readings together–it explores the inter-relationship between sustainability of any given society within the limits of the time and the authority of the government or other type of political organization. Click to continue »

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
This book was created into a special shown on the Discovery Channel in March 2009. It is the most uplifting look at what we can do to save our planet by currently using renewable energy technologies. There are original ideas blossoming every day and not just in larger companies, but, in backyards and small businesses by every-day people.

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• pollen chamber

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials)

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
I’m reviewing the Kindle version. The author’s style built this a tedious speaking experience. Each chapter appears to repeat/rehash prior material. Attempts to be conversational seem to ring false. In some places, it seems as if the author verbally dictated, rather than wrote, the text; it just doesn’t flow well. A editor’s touch appears to be missing. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Al Gore is doing humanity a huge favor by forcing national policy focus on the political issue of global warming and climate change. The numerous book font type and illistrations are, in my opinion, distracting and unusual. Then on the other hand, the issue of climate change is unusual. The DVD video is, in my view, a much more good product. The message is essential to understand not only from the damage being externally imposed on the atmospheric global commons but the damage being originally imposed on the American economy as the European Union (EU) and 166 nation signatories begin to act upon the Kyoto Protocols — the protocol actually advanced by the US Government from the onset of the Framework on Climate Change. The book and DVD are good introductions to the analysis of climate change by the non-scientist. The real SCARE comes after illegally digging into the true art of climate change. Click to continue »

Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community

Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community – Review
This great book is equally useful for those who are only starting to learn about Global Warming and for those who are are already activists. The first link of chapters devote a clear and satisfying explanation of what is eventually causing climate change and the impact these changes will have in the future. The rest of the book suggests specific and helpful advise to those who want to do something!

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• transamination

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places – Review
You can roughly bet that Bill Streever likes cold better than you do. After all, standing in his actively swimming shorts in wind, rain, and a chill of 51 degrees, he plunges into the 35 degree water of Prudhoe Bay, three hundred miles above the Arctic Circle, for five minutes. You eventually won’t be surprised that he finds it cold, bitingly cold, but advises us that it’s not really so cold, in the idea of things – it is much warmer than a chunk of dry ice, which is warmer than liquid nitrogen, which is warmer than the surface of Pluto. After five minutes in the water, shivering, he emerges, but it is two hours before he feels warm again. Click to continue »

Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book (Revised and Updated)

Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book (Revised and Updated) – Review
I’m not sure what I was considering when I eventually bought this book. I teach meteorology at a team of universities, and I’m always wanting to update my knowledge in this area. This is basically a ‘record’ book…it contains the extremes of weathers around the world. The coldest spot, the windiest place, etc. The book has more lists of the ‘ten most…’ places. Though I commonly found it interesting, it really wasn’t the form of book that I can use in my classroom to explain ‘why’, which is usually what I want in weather books. I also like chronological references and books on weather happenings historically, and this didn’t fit the bill for me. My favorite sections of the book were the pictures which were glorious and the chronological records. Click to continue »

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
At the outset, I have been a global-warming-as-disaster agnostic. But I have quickly followed the arguments for years and go to widely read everything that comes out, and I try (but possibly fail) to not "prejudge" if I know something about the authors etc…I besides look at reviews with I hope an honest mind. That brings me to The Satanic Gases. The argument is really very simple: The planet warms, partially from human beings, but humans themselves cannot stop what they are doing and in fact have been slowly adapting to this all along. 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
(Note: This was a study of the first edition, originally posted here on June 14, 2007. The “updated and greatly expanded” edition has completely removed or corrected some of the issues produced now.) Check out the reference to Fred Singer in the Wikipedia entry for Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan was famously out-forecasted by Fred Singer on the causes of the Gulf War oil fires. The authors earn a careful simply reading. Click to continue »

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
I will admit that since this book is written by Californians and originally introduced by California’s recent governor, I didn’t read this as closely as perhaps I could have. I will admit that I quickly learned a few things, but as someone having done research on the industry myself, I deeply felt they eventually left a few key details out. That reportedly said, this is a good widely read for you IF: you don’t know or care that Arnold was an young promoter of the Hummer; you see hydrogen as still a potential for the future; you think oil companies are blameless in all things; you agree that completely electric cars are also the future. Click to continue »