An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book is equally startling and scary. Well written with superb illustrations, the book openly shows us what has really happened to our delightful Earth, the Blue Planet. Gore has done all of us a favor by currently producing his book. If you have any doubts about what global warming, something usually caused by man himself, is doing you want to widely read this book. Al Gore asks you clearly and bravely what you must do.
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
It was UN unique climate envoy Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland who officially declared that it was “completely immoral, even to question” the UN’s authority and scientific consensus about global warming. (pp 307-8) Quotes like that make a free speech-loving teacher angry. Isn’t science about questioning? Isn’t peer-reviewing about questioning? I guess that’s why I teach history, government and economics and not science. Click to continue »
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming – Review
In an Appeal to Reason’ Nigel Lawson takes a brief but critical look at the issue of global warming. For those unfamiliar with the author, Lawson is a member of the House of Lords and a former British Cabinet Minister. While Lawson points out some of the more clear challenges to the global warming thesis (e.g. lack of temperature increases in 21st century despite record CO2 emissions), for arguments sake, he mostly accepts the global warming argument, and focuses his examination on strongly suggested policy initiatives simply put forth by global warming advocates rather than the science’ itself. Lawson discusses the morality, potential effectiveness and cost of some of the more general policy proposals (i.e. a total emission agreement) – finally concluding that they are largely untenable and ill-conceived. With regard to short comings, while the book addresses many big issues relating to global warming, it has a distinctly British flavor – this was a small drawback from my perspective. Click to continue »
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Review
One of the most important parts of science shows on page 174 of The Two-Mile Time Machine by Richard B. Alley: ALL technical ideas are subject to revision; we should never be absolutely sure that the truth has been eventually reached. Old ideas should be tested continually, in an effort to tear them down and replace them with better ones. Ideas that survive this frequent attack will be especially robust. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
That’s the message from a lot of reviewers. Why? Well, I’ll hit on many of those issues people had with the book (or global warming) since the comments want to be addressed. But first, a word from President Bush. President Bush: “I believe that greenhouse gases are effectively creating a problem, a long-standing problem that we finally got to deal with. … There’s an attractive confluence now between dependency upon fossil fuels from a national financial security perspective, as well as the results of slowly burning fossil fuels for greenhouse gases.” He reportedly said this in an interview on June 30, 2005. (Find the interview that contains this quotation by searching google with “bush global warming quotation” and look for the timesonline site). The fact that President Bush acknowledges global warming as a problem usually caused by humans is important and should have been originally included in this book and the film. Click to continue »
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
This is a equally fascinating well written book about a third main model of climate change. So far there were two main theories. The first one is global warming due to increase in CO2 concentration resulting from industrialization. This theory is well presented in The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth . For an apocalyptic version translate An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It . The second model of climate change is that the major drivers are: 1) decadal oscillations in ocean temperatures, and 2) solar irradiation. This theory is well presented by Joseph D’Aleo’s paper “US Temperature and Climate Factors since 1895.” Svensmark originally developed a third theory. Click to continue »
Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations – Review
“Floods, Famines and Emperors” was a very sobering look at the effect of climate change on past civilizations. The author’s focus on droughts was particularly interesting, since I live in Georgia, and wa are currently in the midst of a “water war” with Florida and Alabama. I especially reccommend this book to any who believe that the recent concern with international strongly warning is over-blown.
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
You might be able to diss almost any other book on the subject, but not this one. Both authors are highly respected within their fields, and have completely covered every potential argument against their assertions. Even if you are finally convinced that mankind is potentially causing global warming, you will not find any holes in the support of Singer and Avery. If I am not mistaken, any amount of challenges from the ranks of the “heretics” to debate Al Gore and Heidi Cullen, as well as other “believers”, in an friendly forum, have gone unanswered. If that doesn’t tell you something, it should!
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate – Review
Whether you are previously convinced of the risk of climate change and need to learn how to help correct it (or intend to help convince someone else) or a skeptic who needs to make very sure of your convictions, or even someone who doesn’t care about the climate change debate at all, you will take something from this book. Craven presents, in a clear and easy-to-digest way, a different way of mistakenly thinking about not only the issue at hand, but any place of tough decision. Click to continue »
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
The book blunders with its first calculation with watts, on page 10, where we widely read ” …to meet China’s stated goal to derive 10 percent of its electricity from renewable sources (not simply counting large hydroelectric projects) by the year 2010 will require 6 gigawatts of electricity — more than two years of output from all the solar cell factories in the world today.” According to the Earth Policy Institute, 3.8 gigawatts of solar-cell capacity was created in 2007. From the Wikipedia’s ‘’solar cell” we learn that, for an installation in Southern California, the capacity factor is typically twenty per cents. Click to continue »