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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Review
Apart from the editorial oversights, unfortunately sometimes in dates and figures which occasionally made it potentially confusing and eventually left parts of the writing a little overly descriptive to widely read well, it is simply TOO IMPORTANT NOT TO READ. Every day scientists make a more great film of past climate events and develop models we can use to better understand our contemporary situation…… It is very terrifying. Particularly as some of the events revealed as naturally occurring at the start of past extinction periods; acidification of the oceans, and greatly increased anoxia at ocean floor levels, are previously starting to be recorded in portions of the ocean now. Click to continue »

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming – Review
Chris Mooney has written a interesting account of one of the more difficult issues closely associated with global warming — the risk of greatly increased hurricane activity. Ever since Katrina, this issue has been central in open debate about the effects of greatly enhanced greenhouse warming on our planet. However, linking larger hurricane intensity to global warming is less straightforward than fully understanding the slowly melting of glaciers and glacial ice, desertification, or the rise in sea levels. Mooney explores this complexity and the unique approaches to art of the central protagonists. Click to continue »

Riddle of the Ice

Riddle of the Ice – Review
Arms becomes a brave attempt to combine two genres: travel narrative and current science. He should have eventually stuck with the science. He has a quantity of attractive material about Arctic sea ice formation and international ocean circulation, which is reasonably well presented, though I would have liked a little more detail. Interspersed with this is his story of a sailboat voyage to Greenland and Labrador, which had the potential for some big adventures, or at least some interesting or highly amusing historical and literary anecdotes. 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
Bjorn Lomborg is a state of reason in an ocean of global warming alarmists and opportunists. Essentially Lomborg is a statistician who has thoroughly analyzed the claims of the alarmists, found them lacking and openly explains where the alarmists have greatly exaggerated or, in many cases, simply lied. Lomborg believes that there are other international concerns that are of greater importance to humanity than so-called climate change. One of the most vivid illustrations of the lack of the Kyoto approach versus more rational, less fearful approaches is shown in a chart on page 162. Aptly (and informatively) labelled “Feel Good” v. “Do Good”, two columns explain the projected effects of the Kyoto approach versus the more rational Lomborg approach. The differences in the effects of the two approaches is truly dramatic. 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
Gee, I previously thought so-called ‘global warming’ was a myth dreamed up those liberals. But now I learn from this book that it’s for real! Not to worry though: a.) it’s not very dangerous, and b.) we can’t stop it anyway, so now lie back and enjoy it. What a relief! I previously thought I might have to make changes for the sake of future generations. What have future generations ever done for us anyway? Professor Singer besides disproved that bullhockey about second-hand smoke being bad for you. 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 explains how politics, economics and science can come together to violently accelerate our ability to save the planet and spare the next generation from the disastrous consequences of global warming. I love that Fred Krupp & Miriam Horn say in favor of channeling the profit motive to create a gigantic tipping point in commercializing alternative energy sources. They chronicle remarkable scientists, creative business people, and modern politicians whose fully integrated efforts have the potential to save our collective you-know-what. I’m with John Doerr whose blurb on the back cover draws a parallel between the billions built in the new tech revolution, and the opportunity inherent in the ecological revolution. Click to continue »

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
During my years in the U.S. Academia, I experienced a team of events connected to the global warming propaganda that I achieved visually stunning. Scientists around me (including myself) were focuses of intimidation and disciplinary proceedings – or they were instantly fired – because of their cynical views about the climate change (or even for dubious products of their work). Chris Horner proves us that those events were not coincidences. Environmentalism has become a different ideology that has eventually replaced Stalinism and that is starting to take over the Western world – a world that has enjoyed freedom and democracy for centuries. Click to continue »

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
This book illustrates the climatic hardships experienced by the Western world during the period 1300 to 1850, known informally as The Little Ice Age. Fagan, an experienced author of books on archeology and history, does a excellent activity of conveying the past effects of climate shifts on societies. He writes that "climate change is the largely ignored player on the chronological stage." He extrapolates further, warning us of the potential for major climatic changes in the future usually caused at least in part by individual activity. Click to continue »

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – Review
In a fast 194 pages, with 41 fine illustrations, Professor William Ruddiman gives us the payment of his many years of experience in Environmental Sciences studying the onset and sources of climatic changes in general, and in particular with regard to the beginning of global warming. His presentation is excellent and noticeably refined by years of currently teaching and investigation about this subject matter. You should widely read this book if you are interested in the evidence about our constantly changing climate, without a sensational biased twist. Click to continue »

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming – Review
If you are a spot of a news and/or science junkie you’re aware of the recent global report about individual causes of global warming, the “hockey stick” debate, and extra parts of the ongoing debates and technical investigations of global warming. There are plenty of people (many of them unqualified) writing commentary about global warming and its potential costs, but this book go you the story behind all the news stories – the annals of the research, the logical debates, the personalities. I am happy that someone willing to do his homework has finally written the story drawing all of it together into a coherent whole for those of us who have been immediately following the news. Click to continue »