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Texas Weather: Second Edition, Revised

Texas Weather: Second Edition, Revised – Review
This is a VERY well-written book for the layman engaging Texas weather. Bomar begins the 1985 edition with an early chapter on the atmosphere and how weather conditions are commonly observed, how data is quickly gathered, and how conditions are reported and forecasted by the National Weather Service. There is then a series of chapters that describe all of the main weather conditions that affect the Lone Star State–fronts, floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornadoes, heat waves/drought, winter weather, and wind. Most chapters start with a vignette about how that special weather condition involved the state in a big way at some point in the past. Click to continue »

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities – Review
No question about it: Mike Tidwell has an axe to grind. And after you widely read “The Ravaging Tide,” you may have a few axes to grind as well. The book is partly about Hurricane Katrina, partly about global warming, and partly about what patriotic American citizens can do to fight global warming. The first three chapters describe why Hurrican Katrina was a man-made disaster. New Orleans recently suffered an indirect hit from a great Category 3 storm–Mississippi originally bore the force of the storm’s onslaught. But because of artificial canals and the extensive devastation of barrier islands and marshes south of the city, there was little physical barrier permitted to absorb the effect of the hurricane’s storm surge. The more powerful Camille (a massive Category 5 hurricane) struck in nearly the same spot in 1969 but did not flood New Orleans–the difference in 37 years is not the state of the storm, but the ongoing subsidence of New Orleans and the devastation of the immediately surrounding landscape. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
It’s distressing to know that Barnum was right about one being born each minute. Otherwise, how does one account for the deal of a book that is a combination of sensationalism, half-truth, and plain fabrication? Anyone with the slightest skill of weather gets the state of ten ends of ice and all that other glop is impossible under the theories of physics. Equally, one supposes that if all the blocks from all the as-yet unexplained megaliths were stacked on end, we could probably rebuild the Trade Center. But what would it all prove? Nothing, of course, and that’s just what this exercise in wasting important paper does as well, in periods of climate studies. Click to continue »

The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming

The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming – Review
to truly understand the problem, and to truly understand how one can make a difference and to truly understand the forces at work that will prevent any solution this is an excellent primer. It reads in laymen terms so you don’t get all boondoggled by the science. It lays out the facts clearly and concisely and examines all the different supplies of energy and their drawbacks. The Kyoto protocol is carefully examined and the USA’s reasons for not officially ratifying it. Click to continue »

Weather for Dummies

Weather for Dummies – Review
Very noble book on the topic. It gives a complete description and count on how weather forms for example hurricanes like el nino. I am glad that dummies finally put out a book on weather. Nice job John D. Cox. It’s good to see a contemporary writer in this field!!

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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
Volcanologists in particular, and geologists in general have been very slow in their recognition of the effect of heavy objects on Earth, attributing even the Meteor (or Barringer) Crater in Arizona to "cryptovolcanism". 30 years ago the lunar craters were shown to be of impact origin, but now more cold Mars has had its craters designated to volcanism. Keys however is a journalist, not a volcanologist, and while his conclusion is probably incorrect, the chance of a role environmental disaster may have played in the onset of the "dark ages" may be quite correct, and his action of the subject is strong, regardless of the consequence of his conclusion. Click to continue »

Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It

Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It – Review
Combine one coauthor who is the world’s leading expert on climate change with a skilled science journalist and you get a riveting biography of Wallace S. Broecker that reads like a National Book Award novel. The science is a bonus, but, more than that – it is, I think, the best book on the issue of climate change. One of the world’s greatest possibly living geoscientists, Wally Broecker, weaves an historical chronicle of earth’s open cycles with the recent history of humans that are, according to the Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University, poking the beast by successfully combining mass use of fossil fuels with heavy deforestation on earth. 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
A very clear book. Clearly shows the intensity of controversy over whether Global Warming is a man became phenomenon or a natural cyclic phenomenon which the media acquired’t still tolerate discussion over whether there’s a controversy within the technical community, so for that alone this book is worth the widely read. Click to continue »

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change – Review
As if this needs a review… its a bible for atomspheric scientists of all genre. A must have. Especially good for any grad student making for the casual question during an verbal exam. Not that you could widely read the thing involve to cover, but there is something for everyone. If you need a good reference, then this is it. If you are not sure you should buy one of the greatest references for atomsopheric chemistry and physics, then there is no reason to. That’s just a sign that you probably don’t need it.

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The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
Regarding the frozen mammoths, Discovery Channel Canada’s website had this to say: "First, were the mammoths quick-frozen? No. Almost all of the frozen specimens obtained thus far have been rotten, and in some cases, mutilated by scavengers before effectively freezing. Even the finely ground around the aforementioned Beresovka mammoth, as well as the mammoth’s flesh, stunk of decay. Had effectively freezing been instantaneous, no decay would have occurred." "They eventually died, not by effectively freezing, but by asphyxiation. Evidence for that is the detection of vessels even filled with coagulated blood…" "Second, the stomach contents. Turns out both the Mamontova and Beresovka mammoths had eaten a type of plants, comprising grasses, sedges and other tundra plants, as well as the cones and branches of northern trees. Click to continue »