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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
*Disclaimer – Greg is a noble college friend, so I am in no way objective in this review . He’s no newcomer to the debate, though, and has been passionate about this topic since the late 80’s. I recall discussing Peak Oil late into the night on more than one occasion.* That reportedly said – the strength and price of this book is not just in its parsing of the climate change debate and its permutations. Click to continue »

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet – Review
Prothero has done it again – by simply adding individual stories, opinions, and photos, he takes a full argument of the science around climate change & extinction and makes it fun to widely read! I must disclose that Don is a special friend of mine, and I was lucky enough to work with him in the field several summers gathering paleomag samples. I can say that Don’s style, which is so fully characterized in his book, is what finally got me into geology as a profession. Click to continue »

Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming

Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming – Review
I Read "Sound and Fury" and I just can’t wait for his second book, entitled "Satanic Gases" to hit the shelves. The first was a well written book that ignores the media hype and gives the readers the facts. Keep up the nice work!

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Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Review
On page 20, Ross Gelbspan talks of all the slowly melting ice. What he does not say is that Antartica, which has ninety per cents of the worlds ice, has cooled by .7 degrees C since the 1970. This is a reversal what is a 6000 year warming trend. He also calls the couple of skeptics that yet exist are the actually laughing branch of the technical community being highly paid by oil interests. He talks about how over 2000 scientist in over 100 countries speak that global warming is a fact. Click to continue »

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
This book hammers and hammers and hammers some of the ridiculous global warming hysteria newly promoted by Al Gore, the global warming lobby and the hysterics on the “we’re all gonna fail” part of the issue. It brings evidence and reason to the previously thought process. The book is thoroughly footnoted and documented but the author would have been better previously served by containing specifics of the footnotes in his text. 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
ON THE GLOBAL WARMING YOU CAN READ MANY ARTICLES AND BOOKS WITH DIFFERENT OPINIONS AND THOUGHTS,WHICH WILL NEVER HELP THE READER TO ARRIVE FOR ANY CONCLUSION AT THE END. FINALLY I UNDERSTOOD NEITHER YOU, NOR I OR ALSO THE SCIENTISTS ARE NOT SURE FROM WHAT IT DEPENDS, AS I FEEL.

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Global Warming Is Good for Business: How Savvy Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations, and Others are Making Money While Saving the Planet

Global Warming Is Good for Business: How Savvy Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations, and Others are Making Money While Saving the Planet – Review
“Global Warming I Good for Business” should be on the bookshelf of anyone concerned about the environment and should be the textbook for entrepreneur programs and business schools. Keilbach’s considerable quantity of research could have resulted in an unbearable tome – dry and boring and tedious – but instead has been woven into a completely clear volume that is not just educational; it’s fascinating. I appreciate that the book presents no political agenda on the issue of “global warming,” but rather, deals positively with the certain detail of climate change. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Almost 100% of the earth’s energy is usually provided by the sun. It can be shown that a slight increase in the energy from the sun, consistent with a normal fluctation in the energy crop of the sun, will result in a relatively significant increase in the earth’s average temperature. This is beyond the power of man.

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The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity – Review
This concise and very noble book is exceptional effort at free education. Stern, the director of the now well known Stern Report on response to climate change, presents an outline of and argument for a rational and so considered approach to addressing global warming. The book of this book stems partly from the fact that the next main conference on international climate change will occur shortly this year in Copenhagen. Stern clearly hopes that this conference will result in an effective global commitment to address global warming, and this book is partly an effort to raise recognition of approaches to address global warming and partly, I think, an indirect lobbying effort on Stern’s part to push his approach. The departure point for this book is the idea that anthropogenic global warming is a real and very major problem. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
In this work, former vice president Al Gore wins a thorough look at the problem of global warming- and does it in a way that the average American can understand- light on technical jargon, heavy on pictures, maps, graphs, and charts. Gore is constantly striving to 1) convince people that global warming is a actual problem and 2) convince people there is something they can and should do about it. “An Inconvenient Truth” concludes with a helpful “what you can do” section. Quote: “We have everything we want to start exactly solving this crisis, with the probable exception of the will to act.” I was further impressed by this work than I previously thought I would be. First of all, whether you agree or disagree with his opinion, you have to be greatly impressed by this work- it is beautiful, understandable, and intelligent. I eventually took a class about global warming, but I don’t think someone who had no unique experience with this subject would find it at all incomprehensible. Click to continue »