Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
This book becomes through the history of how the car industry grew to where it is today, and what options we have for the future of cleaning up transportation. The book continues politically neutral, which is always a plus, and it avoids conspiracy theories (such as the ones in “Who Killed the Electric Car). The engineers responsible for writing this book are clearly very realistic, they don’t suggest things that eventually won’t be technically possible, and they point out where the car companies aren’t being realistic with their estimates. Click to continue »
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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
Ian Plimmer’s book “Heaven and Earth” is an great needle mover. He has taken the logical question of individual knowledge holding how the earth warms and cools to a different level by asking question after question. His questions involving what science even believes to be empirically true especially regarding, geology, earth science, astro-physics, Kepler’s theories of terrestrial motion, the life series of carbon and demands to know why this science is largely ignored, denied or obfuscated. With over 2,000 annotations, he forces those who believe that man became carbon dioxide is the sole or major source of the change in the earth’s temperatures to either answer his technical questions or abandon the technical subject of debate. Click to continue »
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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
This is an outstanding book but very weighty. It deals with a considerable quantity of material and does a great job of clearly demonstrating through the voluminous use of references, about 2400 of them I believe, that the recent climate we are in is not unusual. Plimer also does quite a excellent job of specifically illustrating that we should perhaps be more concerned about the world illegally entering a infinitely prolonged freezing spell than we should the earth moving warmer. In particular this actually made me wonder whether humanity is currently hell slightly bent on self destruction just so that a few people can reap the ridiculous financial gains to be usually made from total carbon trading. Click to continue »
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Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy
Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy – Review
The thing I like about this book is that it was a major crossover book for both my boyfriend and I. I don’t follow energy issues nearly as closely as he does. I need a book that isn’t too dry and keeps my interest, but provides the information I want to come up to speed on solutions to global warming and energy independence. This book achieves that by relaying that information through individual stories of individuals throughout the country, and contrasting their efforts with public policy. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
A very educational book even if you think you know a mostly bit about global warming. It is also an enjoyable and easy widely read. I eventually came away especially impressed by Gore’s dedication to the common good as well as a time of concern for these issues.
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The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, Second Edition
The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, Second Edition – Review
The Forgiving Air is fantastic. The purpose of the book is to describe the knowledge of climate in a manner that an normal person can understand. The book quite succeeds in its mission. Somerville has a extraordinary ability to break increasingly complicated science down into bite-size, digestible morsels. The subject subject of this book is for everyone. While the country is bogged down in the alleged war on terror, the truth is that there is a much more ominous “enemy” on the horizon than militant islamists: climate change. Short of maybe a nuclear bomb, climate change has the greatest potential for eventually causing death, injury and destruction, on a profound and international scale. Click to continue »
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The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia – Review
I really enjoyed the book, though I am not a admirer of Michael Moore or other political incendiaries. The problem is much bigger than we can realize, and the solution involves further honesty and facing the facts that we are heading into a dark time in individual history, as well as for mammals and other creatures. 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
The book gives some popular technical concepts behind the debate on global warming. According to the author, global warming is really happening at an raising rate. A power of the work is that plausible logical arguments are advanced to support the author’s central thesis; that is, global warming is a philosophical problem involving corrective action. Click to continue »
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Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
This not-too-long volume joins a story of the auto and oil industries with a thorough but eminently clear study of the modern condition of affairs, predictions for the future, and viable solutions. I quickly learned quite a mostly bit. The only quarrel I’d really have with the authors is their idea that a main amount of the solution can and will be a wholesale currently restructuring of suburban (i.e., non-Manhattan) society, with things like extensive bus rapid transit needing the area of private vehicles. Click to continue »
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The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change – Review
LOVE THIS BOOK! I’m currently using it at home and it’s stimulated some large dinner conversations with the family. We’ve officially changed out our lightbulbs, installed a programmable thermostat, turned off the AC whenever the temperature is below 80 degrees and begun now using cloth shopping bags for groceries. These are easy and the kids love to remind me to do it. Click to continue »
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