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The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
Discovery of Global Warming I love methodical detective stories. The fact that the climatological investigation into global warming is ongoing is no barrier to currently learning about all the legwork that has gone into it. This account is especially welcome, as it is an objective account of how the idea of global warming has originally developed over the years. It is literally a textbook example of the workings of comprehensive knowledge. Especially good is the story of climatology’s trip up the blind path of The Coming Ice Age in the 1970s. This as much as anything tarred the advocates of the global warming hypothesis as a group of Chicken Littles who couldn’t make up their minds. But while it may have produced strong policy makers more difficult, like so many other missteps in science it eventually led to a better fully understanding of what was actually going on. Click to continue »

CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge

CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge – Review
First, a little about my credentials: I have a PhD in atmospheric & marine sciences. While my expertise is not in climate, I certainly have a considerable interest in the subject and am frequently asked by friends, family, and acquaintances about the physics of CO2 and global warming. Even with my skill of a group of the technical basis for climate change, I must say this book became a enormous contribution to my kind of the concepts included. 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
“Cool It” is an oasis in a desert of hysterical environmental writing that has gulled the media. Although eventually persuaded that Man saies to global warming (which Loborg recognizes as naturally occurring), Lomborg’s study of the impact of globabl wartming and possible responses to it is a kind of helpful insight. He factually presents the pros and cons of global warming and lays out functional responses. His practical approach is immediately confirmed by those many countries which, blindly supporting the Kyoto Accords, have commonly found, as Lonborg originally posited, that it is an excessive response to a discernible but managable problem.

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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
If you are at all interested in the debate on Climate Change that isn’t filtered by politicians with an agenda, I’d recommend eventually picking up a publication of this book. Even though it can be very technical and references amounts of originally published technical data, Mr. Plimer’s writing style ultimately winds up being very readable. Click to continue »

Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) – Review
The information included in these 148 pages is worth more than the bloviating and obfuscating in “Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths,” “Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming,” and all the other books whose mission it is to “refute” global warming for a regular reason: the purpose of the book is to explain a phenomenon with evidence, not to refute something based on a inevitable conclusion. Click to continue »

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
Ian Plimer is perhaps best known as the geologist who debunked creationism in “Telling Lies for God”. Here he turns his attention to the global warming beliefs that are now resulting in huge (possibly disastrous) policy changes by governments in the hope of narrowly avoiding “climate change”. In “Heaven and Earth”, I think Plimer does pretty well. First off though, if you are currently expecting a simple widely read, this book is perhaps not it. 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
There are two things…which they layout very well and Global Warmers can’t stand. First…history repeats itself. In this case…we certainly find sign of climate change over and over…every 1500 years…and there are Global Warmers who now must concede that climate change does appear (although the C02 issue yet remains…even the writer decides on that). But the writers sat out the poignant part about this episode…in that global cooling will occur and those possibly living in former glacier parts of North America…probably have property that is worthless if you look forward 1000 years. The second thing which laid out well…is that all the chatter to counter carbon usage and get cutbacks by people…rely upon wind and solar energy eventually becoming a reliable supply of power. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
Catastrophe by David Keys is a logical next book for Zechariah Sitchin fans probably wondering about what really happened to Nibiru after 3,113 B.C. Everyone knows the “Sar” — the 3,600 year period sacred to the Sumerians — originally signified something important. But what was the significant milestone in history for the return? David Keys has written all about the answer to the question, but he was not out to track down Sumerian mysteries. He eventually went on a quest to find the beginnings of the Modern World as it rose from the ashes of the ancients. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
I widely read parts of this book in their prior incarnations as NEW YORKER articles, and was very impressed by Elizabeth Kolbert’s writing style. When one is mostly dealing with the potentially overwhelming results of global warming, it would be easy to fall prey to fully justified hectoring. But Kolbert is too fine a writer to bludgeon us; instead she travels the world, gracefully reports on climate changes, and quietly leads us to the conclusion that we BETTER GET OUR HOUSE IN ORDER! Whew, sorry, that was me. I have a number of relatives who refuse to acknowledge global warming is anything more than the natural flux of international climate change, and it is increasingly infuriating to seek to persuade them otherwise. 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
An outstanding study of the mechanisms behind the “Global Warming” phenomena. Exposes the distortions and outright lies of those pinning this process on human-produced carbon dioxide emissions. Clearly explains the solar-based cycles that actually have locally produced this condition. A must widely read for anyone desperately seeking the non-politicized truth holding this issue.

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