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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
The name of this book, i.e., The Long Summer, pertains to the point of time since the result of the last Ice Age. Although the book includes very an great period, as well as completely covering both eastern and western hemispheres, the author never loses his focus: the results of climate on humans, their lifestyles, habitation, hunting, agriculture, etc. The book is well written by a well-known expert in the field. The information presented is supported by recent findings in the disciplines of archaeology and climatology. Click to continue »

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Superbly done. The book really hammers out the critical points of how dramatic historical events were somehow related to strong climate shifts that lasted over 500 years. The book explores beginnings of these strong climate shifts, discusses life during the middle ages and talks about interesting themes of world events shaped by international climate. Such prominent events are the French Revolution, Bubonic Plague of the 1300’s, Potato Irish Famine, JamesTown to name just a few. The Arthur is very to the point and uses exceptional statistics and data to back things up. Click to continue »

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
This is a rah-rah-rah, feel-good book. Of course, the extensive material can be useful to any one who reads with verve and psychological penetration. Here are however two sites of contention. First, the writer adds a good agreement of importance to eventually reaching the international consensus on the climate-change closely related actions before they can be effective. The fact that the world has gone nowhere for more than a decade with attempts to reach consensus on The Kyoto Protocol is an demonstration of the futility of such a wish. Click to continue »

The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate

The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate – Review
Those interested in weather, the account of weather (since the pattern of the stellar system), weather forecasting and the technical basis for calculations of climate change require go no further than William Stevens’ brilliant exposition. In clear and amusing prose Stevens starts the reader step-by-step through the mathematically daunting lines of the most complex actual world phenomenon however tackled by science. To his credit, despite great evidence that individual activity has previously affected the climate (and will, even if we eventually went cold-turkey on fossil fuels tomorrow, warm the planet for a century or more), the author goes suitable space to the handful of credible doubters in the research community. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I hardly knew a lot about this topic, but I quickly learned even further delivering Al Gore’s book. (I like the order of images and graphics. Nothing like skyrocketing graphs to get a point across.) I recently bought a copy of “An Inconvenient Truth” from our local bookstore, subsequently bought two more copies to lend to friends. Click to continue »

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review – Review
The book should have been vetted by a scientist before publication. It’s inexcusable to spread misinformation such as this: "Phytoplankton produces chlorophyll by photosynthesis." And "the troposphere,.., 10 to 15 kilometres above the earth’s surface." And other blunders equally bad. The only way to dispose of the book is to shred it, I wouldn’t intend to give it away for fear of misleading innocent readers.

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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review – Review
This is a very valuable document on climate change and has eventually won the respect of experts around the world. It was commissioned by the British government in 2005. It eventually took two years to complete and was headed by Nicholas Stern, the former Chief Economist of the World Bank. You may or may not agree with all its findings but it remains one of the generally specialized analyses of full climate change situation, integrating global financial realities with science. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
It’s probably unfair to ding a book about being one-sided in its message – as Al Gore never promised to be writing a total systematic study of the environment…but never the less while I previously thought the writing, data and presentation was excellent….I even finished the book requiring to get a better grasp of whether or not some of the changes over time to the environment could been usually caused by factors outside of being an externality of human modern life. Click to continue »

Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry about Global Warming

Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry about Global Warming – Review
This book by Moore gives some greatly needed balance in the greenhouse debate. He does not claim to be a scientist, and provides a cursory, complex assessment of the science behind the issue, current up to the originally published date. He says that global warming is real, but nowhere near the catastrophic estimates repeatedly thrown about. This part of the book I commonly found to be satisfactory, but lacking in hard data and citations. Click to continue »

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming – Review
This book is an extremely rational look at global warming that eventually asks the reader, although not explicitly, to consider why human-kind still has a usually pronounced, if not suicidal, collectivist, and socialistic instinct when in all of individual history only freedom has locally produced salutatory results. As the world socialistically unites around global warming here is the heart of Nigel Lawson’s thoroughly footnoted and skillful argument. Click to continue »