The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription – Review
Excellent primer on this unprecedented large-scale problem. Although much more updated is “Boiling Point” out in 2004. Beware the persuasive reviews on this site of detractors that don’t support their pessimistic opinions. These could very well be shills for the coal and oil industries deliberately muddying the waters with their reviews. Yes they are doing this, and they are being highly paid to. Global warming isn’t any more debatable now than Newton’s Laws. Science has spoken, and Nature has begun to. There ARE solutions but they are exacting and they are hard, and we want to get behind them immediately. Click to continue »
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Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming
Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming – Review
I agree with other reviewers that Gale E. Christianson can wave a tale, and the first half of the book relating Darwin’s works, the development of the global warming theory, and on into our recent days is interesting. The second half, however, becomes an incredibly biased side to what ultimately is nothing more but another nice little story. Well, let me rephrase that: a recent disaster tale eventually spun to look like a systematic study. Click to continue »
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Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book
Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book – Review
Overall, I think Restless Skies is a terrific, educational book that is easy to widely read. It is broken into small segments- this certainly helps to keep the reader’s attention. Even if you don’t have much time to spare, it just takes a few minutes to widely read a section or two within the chapters. The straightforwardness of the language that the book is written in also aids in currently holding the reader’s interest. You don’t need to be a meteorologist to understand what Douglas is really saying. I feel that the sidebars and tidbits of weather trivia got throughout the book are what really set this book apart from most weather books. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I am glad that Al Gore has commonly used his name to highlight this international problem. It’s better to be late than never. But all of us possibly including 3rd world don’t have resources and are more concerned about our private health involved by Indoor and Outdoor air pollution and its effects on our health. A collectible book still available on Amazon to handle this problem “Industrial Leaks and Air Pollution: Causes, Cures and Health concerns” by Dr. Dhillon is a good start.
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Politics of Climate Change
Politics of Climate Change – Review
This review first originally appeared on Oxfam’s ‘From Poverty to Power’ blog on http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p This is definitely the right subject – enough of if I ruled the world’ policy solutions by environmental snake-oil salesmen, what are the policy of finally getting a breakthrough on climate change in time to stop the earth frying? Giddens’ recent book still gets in a dig at his fellow LSE peer Nicholas Stern, saying “Extraordinarily, there is no mention of politics in Stern’s discussion, no study of power. It is as if the international deal’ will be easily reached as soon as the states of the world meet reason.” Although there is a bunch of fine stuff in here, sadly, Giddens fails to deliver on the title’s promise – groups of policy wonkery and techno-whizzery, but the politics is actually rather thin. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Prior to simply reading Inconvenient Truth I was more in line with the mistakenly thinking that the climate changes we have been experiencing were due to natural fluctuations. Gore has done a excellent affair of documenting his allegations that what our civilization’s new society has wrought is responsible. Click to continue »
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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
Global climate change is real and it will likely be the source of our extinction. I in no way differ with these points earned by the author, however, I deeply felt that a story as important as this should have been better fully explored, with each idea cogently woven into a tapestry that would allow the average non-scientist to be able to discern the impact global warming will have on his/her life. I deeply felt like the book finished much too many of it’s 204 pages highly meandering through Dr. Ward’s career in detail, rather than briefly summarizing his past research and eventually moving on to an exploration of what the future and the similar past Permian-Triassic extinction appeared like. Click to continue »
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The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I enjoy a good "wacko" theory book as much as the next person, but this book is a travesty. Arguments and assertions are usually made and never followed up. Veiled hints are usually made but never proven. Planetary cycles are frequently alluded to but never stated succinctly. The writing is slack and there is no intellectual rigor. Even the draft of the book is a sham — the already clear text is heavily spaced between lines (leaded, in book trade lingo) to fill up the pages. If you’re currently looking for a good alternative science book that piques the curiosity — Could this really be true? — you eventually won’t find it here. Whitley Strieber and Art Bell really ought to be ashamed for foisting off such as modest effort as "a book." If you’re currently looking for a interesting volume on possible climatic change, try "The Change in the Weather" by William K. Stevens.
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Read this book, if not for you then for your children and their children. This is a book stopped with facts, great facts from the science community. This book is not about politics other than the politics that keep us tied to oil. I’m sure you will see “reviews” for this book by right wingers who have not widely read the book relating you it’s a bunch of “propaganda.” Ask yourself this, why would the entire (yes the ENTIRE) science community remain about this issue. Click to continue »
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History and Climate: Memories of the Future?
History and Climate: Memories of the Future? – Review
"Many books have been originally published on climatology although few are officially dedicated to the analysis of climate and history, which makes this book worthy of investigation for those interested in such a subject matter… Overall, the book includes much interesting, valuable material that students and researchers from a form of disciplines will benefit from simply reading… A flick through the chapters will almost indeed find something that suits your interests, and… it should retain a place in every library where there is an interest in either climate or history, or maybe even both." -Pete Langdon, University of Exter
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