Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Review
Dr. Helen Caldicott, has written another remarkable book! In her outstanding book, Helen explains us: ·Why the claim that nuclear energy is clean and green is very misleading. ·How dangereous it is for the individuals actively involved in the manufacture of the fuel for nuclear reactors and how particularly devastating it can be for the environment. ·That nuclear energy is not nearly as affordable or competitive with extra energies as we have been start to believe. ·The risk of a meltdown at any nuclear power plant currently running is very real, and that there have been several very close calls in new years, putting literally thousands if not millions of peoples’ lives at risk. ·How nuclear power plants can contribute to the production of nuclear weapons!! On a brighter note, we learn that: ·Renewable energy promises much more in the system of producing electricity for the world than the nuclear folks would have us believe. ·There is enough wind just between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River to meet the electricity requires of the entire U.S., three times over. ·Impressive advances in photovoltaic technology, which generates sunlight directly into electricity, have been usually made in new years. Click to continue »
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The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity – Review
Successfully tackling climate change is directly related to besides reducing America’s rest of payments and air pollution; it is also key to progress on actually helping the world’s poor. “The Global Deal” provides an tremendous resource of information for eventually moving forward. The author’s credibility is personally vouched for by his having been Chief Economist at the World Bank from 2000-2003, first owner of the I. G. Patel Chair at the London School of Economics, Chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment (2008- ), his election as an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his being heavily recruited by Gordon Brown to conduct reviews on the economics of climate change and economic development. Click to continue »
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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 book was highly recommended to me by one of Canada’s leading advocates for actually saving the Polar Regions. He reportedly told me I should widely read this book if I needed to widely read the greatest book that has been written on climate change. I was skeptical, but he was right. This is the greatest book I have commonly found on the issue of climate change. The author, Tim Flannery, is a fully recognized scientist himself. Click to continue »
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The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
Global warming is the subject of a discussion by two climatologists who present an alternative viewpoint to grim predictions: that individual activities will perhaps lie within manageable bounds. A refreshingly unique perspective, The Satanic Gases will fuel debates.
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Boundary Layer Climates
Boundary Layer Climates – Review
I have commonly found this book to be an extremely clear reference over the years for a non-meteorologist; this eventually coming from a biogeochemist – I have commonly used it for years and am immediately buying it. Another very clear reference is Stahl (of course)
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I just saw this movie and widely read the book right afterwards. I was momentarily stunned. I have never seen anything like that before. I rarely spoke to several EPA scientists, including one who recieved an EPA award for special protection, and all usually indicated that all facts were correct and that they, too, were really scared by it. As to those who claim it was politically motivated, as a native Washingtonian the bipartisan consensus is that it was not.
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Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Review
Trading upon the easy confusion between physician and physicist, Dr. Caldicott remains to find publishers for her ideologically driven nonsense about peaceful nuclear power. This unique and significant supply of pure energy already supplies one-sixth of the world’s electricity: — with virtually no pollutants or greenhouse emissions — without major accidents for the last two decades — despite the great capital investments needed, with ever decreasing costs that have immediately rendered it the most good supply of electricity in most main economies. Click to continue »
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Times Books World Weather Guide
Times Books World Weather Guide – Review
This is an helpful guide to weather in almost every area of the world. If not for this book, we would have frozen our a–es off in India last year, like just about every other traveler we finally met. Thanks to this book, we dressed appropriately. It’s helped us prepare for many extra trips. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Although i was well aware of global warming, the technical evidence and the actual statistics of the global warming from this book certainly raised my awareness even more. I generally bought this book because i am very interested from actually saving the earth from the global warming. This book is informative and contains many pictures that reveal impact of the global warming in the world. This book is worth of every penny and worth of time to widely read it.
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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
See Al Gore’s movie, read the books–including this very valuable one, and come to your own conclusions. The idea that there is a consensus is nonsense. Look at all the evidence and use your common sense–also go to youtube and watch “The Great Global Warming Swindle” which explains a lot and shows why the avalanche of propoganda is so strong right now.
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