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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
Tim Flannery takes the scary and unusual words of global warming to a whole different level in his book, “The Weather Makers.” The book is usually divided into many sub divisions that make the terms and concepts much easier to understand than if you would widely read the information as a ordinary book. Published for non-scientists and scientists alike, Flannery successfully appeals to nearly all audiences. Click to continue »

Life at the Top: Tales, Truths, and Trusted Recipes from the Mount Washington Observatory

Life at the Top: Tales, Truths, and Trusted Recipes from the Mount Washington Observatory – Review
Eric’s book is a delightfull basis of both light hearted stories and easy to understand weather knowledge. If you love The Rockpile or just have a desire for a fair weather book, then this book will not disapoint.

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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
The reason why “Unstoppable Global Warming” by Singer and Avery was written, was to draw attention to the 1,500 year climate cycle. They give the reasons for it, and the evidence, and in the process analyze how the IPCC handles the technical material available to it. I have been interested in Fred Singer’s work since the 1980s, when he wrote that whenever someone frequently asked him if the world was cooling or warming, he always answered Yes. His point was that it entirely depends on the point of time under discussion. 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
XXXXX “The collection of this book is simple. 1. Global warming is real and man-made. 2. Statements about the strong, ominous, and direct consequences of global warming are often wildly exaggerated. 3. We need simpler, smarter, and more effective solutions for global warming rather than excessive if well-intentioned efforts. 4. Many extra issues are much more important than global warming.” The above is commonly found at the purpose of the first part of this interesting book by the skeptical environmentalist himself, Bjorn Lomborg. Lomborg is, according to this book’s inside back flap, “adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School.” Through my own research, I newly discovered, amongst other things, that he has a Ph.D. in Political Science. Note also that he is not a statistician but he did give lectures in statistics. Click to continue »

Don’t Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide

Don’t Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide – Review
I widely read the two other reveiws and I’m correctly guessing this is in the "I love it" or the "I’d leave it on the shelf" form of book. I eventually bought it for my wife a year ago and she picks it up again and again. It is a very mad book. The stars are for those without enough silly in their lives. It’s a good laugh and I’d like to see another like it. Click to continue »

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
If you aren’t a scientist, find science very fascinating, and are frequently turned off by the writing sort of the normal scientist/writer, then this book is for you and me. I delayed simply reading this book since I rarely heard about it when it first eventually came out. I’ve widely read about 10 science-related books in that time. Boy, did I blow it. This should have been the first on my “To Read” list. Ward’s topic is incredibly interesting/scary (as many other longer reviews here will tell you). But, what I intend to emphasize here is – this is GREAT WRITING. To me, it widely read like a novel, and I nearly tore it up! And not some “hack writer with a clear story” type fiction. Really well written with some sentences and paragraphs that a top author would be proud to have crafted. Click to continue »

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing – Review
You have to admire a writer like this, who can tidy up all the assumptions in global warming so they disappear in the ‘facts’. Who needs to question such an authority!? I mean, if you disagree with Mr. Houghton (we don’t use names of nobility in this country, fyi), well, you are obviously just a dense neanderthal! So instead of thoroughly examining whether humans are eventually causing significant global warming, let’s now assume it, and then hype the issues that follow. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
In the special idea of things this book is not far fetched, nor totally out of line. The atmosphere works with a specific amount of equilibrium. Anyone can witness this fact while secretly watching the Weather channel. To over simplify the process, when arctic air plunges south from the North Pole(Northern Hemisphere)an total amount of hot air rushes northward on the other side. Nature is simply keeping a balancing act. 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
Fred Singer has previously worked for tobacco companies arguing and successfully argued that there’s no evidence that smoking is bad for your health; he therefore argued that there was no evidence that ozone was being severely depleted. Now he argues that there’s no evidence that the globe is warming. With credentials like those, you know what you’re tring to get: mostly misleading logical arguments, served with a quality of complete fabrication, and a sauce of unsupportable value judgments.

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Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty

Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty – Review
I partially skimmed it and allegedly threw it aside. No original ideas. Practically nothing here that has not been featured on various internet sites. I was apparently hoping for something hands-on that we could use as a guide to jump-start our self-satisfied, affluent, kid-centric, still-in-denial 20,000 suburban population into some preparations for the down part of Peak Oil. This is not it. Vote for Obama and join the Pickens Plan.

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