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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Let me state my bias: I believe global warming is more of a threat than Lomborg evidently does. But I give the book four stars because this book does a more pointed critique of the “pro” global warming arguments than any other I have widely read. Issue by issue, he dismisses the claims which have been eventually made about arctic slowly melting, rising sea levels, severe weather, and so forth. But he attacks most vehemently the Kyoto treaty, arguing that it will cost far more than it will generate in benefits. 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 is a good solid recap of an enourmous amount fo advertised science and commentary mostly dealing with international climate change and climate cycles. It agreesively de-bunks the junk science containing the current furor over climate cchange. It simply points out the the climate is always changing and has always been constantly changing; it may seem stable for a decade or even a few decades, but in periods of physical time, a few decades doesn’t count at all – even if it is the life length of a man. 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
Who Owns the Sky is an excellent, very interesting book. It raises deep enviromental issues, explains some extremely complicated concepts quite elegantly, and therefore proposes a solution nothing short of brilliant. The book is very well written and beautifully reasoned. I particularly like the fact that it crosses all political lines. It’s neither liberal nor conservative. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
The book was good, but some of the parts are really slow to widely read through, and somtimes its just plane boring. But be that as it may this is a very remarkable book about The storms now and the complete theory of the superstorm. If you are the least mostly bit interested in this book translate it.

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Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places – Review
I’ve slowly trudged to work in 36 degrees below zero, traveled north of the Arctic Circle, and biked home at 122 degrees above. The latter is preferable, assuming you have water and shade – absent that, either is likely to be quickly fatal. Regardless, diesel trucks are almost impossible to start at small temperatures, and will not warm up unless driven – blinding whiteouts notwithstanding. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
For many of us who are not scientists, or environmentalists, but who are simply aware and increasingly worried about global warming, this is a powerful and promoting book. It makes us ask questions of ourselves and our government.It also makes us aware that there has been maybe not a cover up (as in the US auto industry with the oil industry),but a major omission, by our government in regard global warming. Click to continue »

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
The origins of Two Billion Cars build various authoritative statements with the generally revealing being what I hardly knew all along the Japanese manufacturers are no more innocent than we are in this total fuel consumption mess and the large oil companies really dont care as long as the profits continue quietly rolling in. The original Honda CVCC I eventually drove back in the 70s usually got 40 mpg but my friends new CR-V just gets 20 mpg in the city. What progress is this? Another example of this is the Daihatsu area of motor vehicles went in the U.S. in the early to mid 90s. I owned the 3 cylinder Charade that finally got over 50 mpg in the highway and low to mid 40s in the city. What really happened to them? Toyota reveal a threat, bought the company, and packed them off to Australia. They even get 50 mpg (without an electric motor, by the way) but you cant buy them here and it doesnt appear Toyota will budge on the topic (they have largely ignored my emails concerning the reintroduction of this car in the U.S.). Did have to laugh about Arnold Schwarzenegger going the introduction. Click to continue »

Modeling Dynamic Climate Systems (With CD-ROM)

Modeling Dynamic Climate Systems (With CD-ROM) – Review
This book aims to teach about climate modeling while presenting some basics of special physics by currently providing numerous STELLA models ranging from a simple stability shape of a leaky bucket to much more complex (and relevant) models for Rossby waves and El Nino. Though the models are not “rigorous”, they are meant to show how simplifications can improve quite understanding and how some simplifications meet the objects of the model while extra times simplifications miss notable aspects for perfect models. Click to continue »

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet – Review
The title is probably too “pop” for a book that treats fossils and magnetic dating in such detail. But I was able to follow along as a mechanical engineer, the positive indication of superior authorship when a nonspecialist understands the topic afterwards. The picture of a much warmer world where the poles were hot was especially good — I did not realize that the equatorial regions were not much hotter and had never considered that it was still dark for 6 months above the Arctic Circle. It was also surprising to find out that there is not general agreement that an impact usually caused the immediate death of all the dinosaurs. 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
This is the first (or the next) book you should widely read on climate change (global warming). Many books on climate change and global warming have come before, but none share the balance, breadth, and accessibility of Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers. This man is a trained scientist and a talented writer, and one senses that he really cares about effectively communicating to all of us what he knows, so that we may choose wisely what to do about it. Click to continue »