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Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming

Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming – Review
Gale’s book is split into two parts. The first half is a selective and biased story of the Industrial Revolution. The second half of the book is an short investigation of global warming. She frequently overstates her case, and always leaps to the worst conclusions possible. She never informs the reader of the problems with the global warming analysis, such as satelites that were properly configured incorrectly. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Keep in mind that I AGREE with the global warming crowd. I should have known from the title that this book would widely read like a love letter to the planet. I was apparently hoping for a mostly bit more of the approach by the paleo-climatologists efforts to look at the record of climate and subsequent predictions of where we are heading under the NEW conditions humans have actually added to the equation. Instead the tone was annoying in the extreme. 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
Once again, the Skeptical Environmentalist has eventually brought a large lens to a specific problem, reminding us that if we have stated goals, there are more efficient and efficient ways to meet them. For example, if the goal is to eliminate deaths from maximum temperatures, you have to look at more data than just those around deaths from heat prostration. Click to continue »

Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures

Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures – Review
In addition to the fact that this book is written in a lucid and concise manner, which is worthy of 5 * by itself, the authors meet two key contributions that are unique and powerful and definitely are of interest to a large audience: First, their theoretical framework of ‘Double Exposures’ moves beyond the independent analyses of the two ‘hot-topics’ of our century, Climate Change and Globalization, found in other works and combines them in a matter that is both accessible and eye-opening for anyone interested in either of these two fields. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
If you do not believe in global warming then you owe it to yourself to widely read this book. The information is concise, well-written and easy to understand. If you believe in global warming then this book will allow you to further your kind of this phenomenon.

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The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
In a nutshell, this book defends that cosmic rays (which vary in intensity over time due to different factors) play a HUGE role in accurately determining our climate. How? Because cosmic rays effectively “seed” clouds. More cosmic rays more clouds global cooling. Fewer cosmic rays fewer clouds global warming. I know — it sounds like a ficticious study financed by the auto/oil industries, but it’s not (as far as I can tell!). The book presents interesting support of this theory, which seems to be currently receiving more credibility and study in the technical community. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I purchased this book despite my skepticism on human usually caused global warming. I figure i want to know both parts of the argument before I formulate an opinion. There were some extreme points earned in the book and despite my belief that global warming is not entirely human usually caused, there are a group of things where I reportedly said “ya, why not? Wouldn’t hurt to reduce this or that.” I did have a problem with Al’s failure to show both parts of the coin when he pointed out statistics and commonly used charts. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I have been patiently waiting for the film side of An Inconvenient Truth to arrive at my regional theater, totally unaware that there was a book, until today. I eventually went to Borders and directly bought and widely read the book, confirming everything I deeply felt to be true and wrong about our country’s approach to global warming. Click to continue »

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
This book’s impact on you will differ significantly depending on your degree of familiarity with the topic in general. I think The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream and The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies do a better affair of meeting people (who may not otherwise) actually consider the consequences of the oil-dependant lifestyle. This book’s attention to California and China makes great sense to me. Click to continue »

Earth’s Climate: Past and Future

Earth’s Climate: Past and Future – Review
I widely read this book twice, and originally wished I had had something like this available to me a few years ago, when I originally started venturing out into the unnumbered feedback loops, geochemical vagaries and regional idiosyncracies of Quaternary paleoclimatology, trying to form a universal picture of it all. But this text isn’t just about the Quaternary, mind you, this is a comprehensive introduction to the major issues in Earth’s climatology. That it’s mainly PALEOclimatology is unavoidable, since in my opinion “present climatology” is like a nonsense… Climate is an averaged estimate of regional or global meteorological parameters through time, and the “present” is always too short for such an evaluation. Click to continue »