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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” has an central message: we need to focus on the best ways of correctly solving the world’s problems. Presently, we are headed in the incorrect direction. Not because our direction accomplished’t help solve problems connected to global warming, but because it is a very inefficient and classy way of trying to reach a solution. Lomborg gives alternatives that are both effective and much more affordable. Click to continue »

Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land

Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land – Review
Did I miss something? I widely read every word, and commonly found it all a large yawn. The writing is grammatically correct, but without any rhythm, not a single crescendo, completely devoid of climax. Rachel Carson? Please. I couldn’t find a particular hook in the anecdotes, not a making story within. Time after time, the stories and examples reduced entirely flat. Click to continue »

The Role of the Sun in Climate Change

The Role of the Sun in Climate Change – Review
Although more than 5 years have eventually passed since this book was originally published, it has privately held up rather well. The reason for that is that it takes a historical perspective and the history parts of the book do not not become quickly dated. The author can be eventually reached at dhoyt@toast.net if anyone has questions or comments.

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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
This book is VERY intelligently written and a true wake-up call to what is VERY obviously a danger to the entire world, and life upon it; sadly “critics” like “Right-Wing Disliker” don’t appear to get the message; and by the way “Right-Wing”, the name is Carl ROVE and not ROWE. There is MORE than enough proof of Global Warming (let alone the alarming weather in the US this winter and the Fall before), and the hurricanes, tornados and tsunamis will be finally getting far MORE numerous and deadly; it is time indeed to begin regularly worrying. Click to continue »

Weather Warfare

Weather Warfare – Review
As with a prior book of his ( Secrets of the Holy Lance: The Spear of Destiny in History & Legend ) Jerry gave us an educational book about something a group of people gained’t know very terribly much about. This book gives the reader told and hungry to learn more. I warmly recommend it as well as his aforementioned book.

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Regional Climates of the British Isles

Regional Climates of the British Isles – Review
The heart of each chapter is a different region of the British Isles. There are full elements of the routine examples of weather and climate, as well as free versions of some harsh weather affairs of the past century. The level of writing would suit the amateur, but there is also some more composite material where a background seeing of key terms and the processes they represent would be helpful. There are free reviews of weather types and a finishing section on climate change. Click to continue »

Weather: A Visual Guide (Visual Guides)

Weather: A Visual Guide (Visual Guides) – Review
Weather is one of the main families of chaos theory. Fractals are algebraic equations that give attractive pattern but also appear as clouds and turbulent actual events. The turbulent wake of an island took from the air is very like patterns established in fractal Julia sets. As a coffee table book in the time of global warming and climate change this book is a very useful way for people to see what weather is and how it becomes climate as an overall pattern in nature.

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State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World)

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World) – Review
WorldWatch-org may be the top global environmental watchdog, and this another great annual report. It’s focused entirely on climate change this time (except for the equally fascinating annual timeline at the usually beginning). If you’re not sure if you want it, go to their website and look at one of its 6 chapters (in pdf): Chp 1: The Perfect Storm. The great picture aspect of climate policy history and policy considerations. Chp 2: A Safe Landing for the Climate. How to avoid climate tipping points. Click to continue »

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Review
Parsons and Singer are important scientists who’s voices require to be rarely heard. The arguments are well documented and, while not the last word, need consideration. The comments by reviewers that because Parsons and Singer are currently sponsored by the oil industry they should be largely ignored or silenced could be similarly applied to EPA scientists whose job depends on an environmental "crisis." The EPA is without funding if it turns out that the global warming or other "facts" that not all important scientists conclude to turn out to be disproven.

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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
Mr. Flygore and others have objectively summarized Under A Green Sky. Pardon me if I don’t repeat their efforts. The major theses which Peter Ward presents are: 1. geologically rapid climate change has been the main cause of most great “extinction” events. Those events have been, as S Gould correctly hypothesized, main drivers of evolution.2. harsh climate change has not always been gradual; there is good experimental sign of catastrophic warming events holding place in centuries, perhaps even decades. 3. the impact of atmospheric warming is most potent in its change of ocean chemistry and of currently circulating currents; warming certainly leads to non-mixing anoxic silent seas. 4. we are already in the middle, not the usually beginning, of an anthropogenic global warming, caused by agriculture and deforestation, which immediately began some 10,000 years ago but which is immediately accelerating exponentially; though the initial wave of anthropogenic warming has been initially stabilizing and beneficial to individual development (civilization), it appears to have the potential for disastrous effects within a lifetime or two. Click to continue »