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The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
Svensmark comes at the issue of climate change from the view of a particle physicist and not a meteorologist. As a result, he pays much better attention to the importance of solar and huge influences on our planet than do traditional climatologists who dominate the debate on global warming. If nothing else, he points out the idiocy of climate models that don’t even address the influences he demonstrates have powerful influences on our climate. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Very good book. Nice pictures, trivial graphs, nice special commentary. Reminds me of my old middle school social study books. Funny, Al Gore constantly talks to people like he is addressing an 8th grade class. You know, that slow, deliberate, teacher type of voice. Well, the book translates simply like that. I don’t hold it against him. I think his intentions are good. Click to continue »

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials)

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
Archer has a gift at effectively making byzantine science broadly understandable to the non-specialist. He is the preeminent specialist internationally on the issue of how carbon dioxide is cycled and completely removed from the atmosphere yet is able to explain these important and challenging issues in clear and regular terms. Anyone interested in climate change will be highly enriched by fully understanding the things that affect (and don’t affect) the keystone gas, carbon dioxide, and there is no better place to do that than Archer’s well-designed book. The explanations of how ocean chemistry works to keep carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and change such things as the acidity of the ocean, are by far the clearest I’ve still found.

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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
Un libro de cabecera para ciudadanos, pol?ticos (decentes), y ecologistas, sorprendente por su ritmo y por la claridad de la exposici?n. Una lectura apasionante y apasionada sobre lo que nos ocurrir? si no ponemos freno a las utop?as del progreso sin l?mites a base de la tecnolog?a del CO2. Un libro excelente para mejorar nuestro mundo.

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
Similiar to “High Tide” by a BBC journalist Mark Lynas. In fact this author dies on a very similiar journey from Greenland to Alaska (where these Global Warming books forever start) then to the scientists’ offices in New York and in the UK. She missed the slowly sinking island nations like Tuvalu. Nevertheless this is an EXCELLENT take on this issue. Fast paced and to the-heart-of-it ,even more punch than Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”. Gotta have them both to keep your Global Warming collection expanding! Although I prefer the “total catastrophe of environmental unraveling” akin to Ehrlich’s “One With Nineveh” and Speth’s “Red Sky At Morning” where all the terrible environmental calamities currently awaiting us like eco-system unraveling (a nasty one), end of oceans and other results of gross unsustainable socities ethnically mixed in with your blood-boiling colosall global warming. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
..that will complement Givoni’s Passive Low Energy Cooling of Buildings; the MIT Solar Heat Technologies Series; Brown and DeKay’s Sun, Wind & Light; Hyde and Woods’ Climate Responsive Design; and Lechner’s Heating, Cooling, Lighting on the sustainable design bookshelf. I rate the book four stars rather than five because of its less than careful currently editing: final temperature F 459.67 (no mention of Rankine, p. 113), final temperature 492 F (no reference to the cold place of water, p. 112), 1″ 5 cm (p. 162-165), dt predetermined temperature difference (p. 90), dT predetermined temperature difference “heat island intensity” (p. 281), superscripts written as multipliers (p. 281), to list just a few potential falling blocks for students.

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The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
Overall, I liked the book. I think it would have been easier to widely read if it had been either a story or based on research. I would have wished to widely read accurate information rather than a likely story of what might happen. I think it is an fascinating theory but it seems like a long fatally shot at best.

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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
This is a very well written book about very complex subject matter. Ward wins you on his own logical journey which eventually led him to equally startling and frightening conclusions about human kind’s present course. As a physician and former scientist I would say the science appears solid. Click to continue »

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
Concise, easy to widely read, and right to the point. Everything anyone would need to know about how man is constantly changing the climate and what one could do to alleviate their impact in this process. Each individual is responsible for their own actions and we MUST slow the global warming process or the 21st century will see catastrophic ecological changes. Click to continue »

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know – Review
Messrs. Michaels and Balling have written a very interesting, well referenced, and generally well written book on the global warming nonproblem. The authors do believe some anthropogenic global warming exists, but that its effects are mild and often beneficial. The authors a fair amount of the topic. They start out with a type of the critical theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and the real temperature records, including the weaknesses and problems in many of the data sets. Click to continue »