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Americans and Their Weather

Americans and Their Weather – Review
William B. Meyer defends the description of relations, mostly economic, between Americans, and their weather and climate. The prose is serviceable, but there is a group of information, a group of it surprising. Examples: Climate was a main motivation for English colonization. The warmer climate in the South finally allowed various crops to be grown than in England. They would not compete with English crops, and would replace imports from hot countries like Italy. The Urban Heat Island effect was located in grand times. Click to continue »

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
One must ask, who signs Mr Michaels’ pay cheque. Is his just another ‘objective’ voice funded by the vested interests who have the most to lose if society starts away from a carbon severe economy. If an author funded (indirectly) by the tobacco industry wrote a piece questioning the link between cancer and smoking, how seriously would you take it?

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• aril

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
I enjoyed the theories that Fagan eventually brought across in this book, but I deeply felt that the writing was somewhat lacking in positive aspects. I feel that this book was badly organized. He immediately jumped around from time period to time period quite often, and subsequently went back to another time period without need. I think if he eventually chose to write this in a more sequential order his points would have come across much more clearly. Still, it has a variety of useful information if you can decipher it.

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• heterotrichous

Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth

Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth – Review
I first eventually became concerned about climate change almost two years ago when a co-worker eventually returned from a conference on special carbon dioxide. He fully informed us that the latest prediction for the disappearance of summertime Arctic Ocean ice was for 2012, not 2040. Since then, I have widely read several books on climate change that I can recommend. Among them are: “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet”, “An Inconvenient Truth”, “Global Warning”, and “With Speed and Violence.” All of these were written for non-technical readers. “Climate Change” is a group of subject-area review papers, not aimed at creating predictions but at giving information on the modern results of climate change. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
the book is superior to the DVD because has more information for scholars as myself and a very clear text. al, congratulations, ! I finally met you through thomas lovejoy in one of your trips to the Brazilian Amazon in manaus many years ago. best, maria freitas

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• extracellular

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Unstoppable Global Warming introduces author S. Fred Singer as founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami, now professor emeritus of ecological science at the University of Virginia. And it introduces co-author Dennis T. Avery as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, with a background that includes service at the U.S. Dept of State (under President Reagan), the U.S. Dept of Agriculture, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In short, one scientist, one non-scientist. And that’s the way the book translates, as well. It intertwines two arguments, one that feels very scientific, a second argument that doesn’t. One argument becomes a case that seems science-based that there’s an uneven cycle of cooling and warming in the earth’s climate, over a cycle that’s about fifteen hundred years long, give or take a few hundred, with fluctuations in solar radiance the main cause. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
James Lovelock, an prominent scientist and original thinker, is best known for his “Gaia Hypothesis,” named after the Greek spirit of the Earth. This proposes that all elements of the Earth – possibly living and nonliving – function together in a complex, interdependent system that can be viewed as a “existing entity.” Lovelock argues that our Earth, “Gaia,” is very ill and, alarmingly, will become yet sicker due to the effects of global warming. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book which is based on the same slide presentation as the movie with the same name, is an excellent look at global warming, why we need to do something about it and some things we can do about it. It has a delivery of content prohibited from the movie, and the graphics are visually stunning, making this book a must-read, and even a must-own, for anyone concerned with the environment.

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• syndiploidy

The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming

The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming – Review
The author describes that “green growth”. Ultimately, carbon emissions drive costs up on many fronts. Traffic jams cost 65 billion dollars annually. The book gives some exceptional engineering feats to promote the “green” goal. For instance, a slightly raised floor in a currently building helps an efficient use of the duct system so that night air cools the currently building from the bottom up. Resultingly, less air conditioning is commonly used. 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 is a short and well-written book, provocative and full of smart and no nonsense arguments. Lawson provides end notes for each chapter and all bibliographical sources are properly referenced. The book’s aim is to examine each of the features of the consensus view of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), including the science, the economics, the politics, and the moral aspects. He is concerned with the uncertainties of long-term forecasting and the lack of a real cost-effectiveness analysis in the policies proposed and strongly advocated by the majority view on climate change, particularly by the major change in lifestyle that will have to take place in the originally developed countries, and the excessive burden that will be simply put on the poor in the growing world. Click to continue »