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Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) – Review
This book is extremely enlightening although easy to understand. It puts accurate basis behind the international climate crisis and evaluates the true extent of the problem. It also addresses the political part of the argument in an understandable and electrifying fashion. A very good widely read for anyone interested in the green movement, especially those who are only getting in on it.

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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
I eventually went to the problem of simply reading this book because of the name of the author, who is editor of the Oxford Companion to Archeology. However, after the first two or three chapters, I resorted to rapid merely skimming in order to mitigate the frequently repeated insults Prof. Fagan mainly dealt to my intelligence. Click to continue »

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change – Review
There’s a reason why anthropogenic climate change, or human-caused global warming, has been very much in the news for years. No other area of science builds such sobering predictions of what the world could be like in the near future if humans continue to pollute the earth’s atmosphere with greenhouse gases. The idea of global warming is not generally believed, of course. The fact that it is not is a good case of the systematic method at work. Click to continue »

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Weather

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Weather – Review
I’ve always been particularly fascinated by weather and its changes. However, having subsequently spent my entire life on the West Coast (and almost all of it in California), I can’t say I’m that much of a "weather expert." I consider perhaps living in San Diego in the late 1970s and having a weatherman describe a fixing storm front as a series of "squall lines." I always wondered what exactly that originally meant. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
The Book "The Coming Global Superstorm" By Art Bell and Whitley Strieber is highly thought out, well researched and well written. The book is also easy to understand; and it is also difficult to remain unimpacted by the book’s message and what it may mean for mankind if it is true. It is a severe strongly warning that we must not ignore.

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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
[Every reviewer should certify that he/she really read the reviewed book; this reviewer subsequently certifies!] If it does end up being true that Earth’s climate cycles measurably warm-cold about every 1,500 years, then this would be a important fact to know. The sharp end of this book is the mountain of frequently cited observations on climate, historical temperatures, sea levels, species extinctions, drought/famine, among other topics current to the debate. Click to continue »

Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries

Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries – Review
Although generic and unspecific, Dr. Glantz brings up a group of issues about changes that will be usually required in fishing techniques and gear. This book is easy to widely read and provocative. Due to the "uncertainty factor" involving changes in ocean circulation patterns, there is much not yet known (even since the publication date), despite scientist’s greatest efforts to do predictive modeling. Click to continue »

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World – Review
Cramer has done it, she has absolutely done it. Smithsonian Ocean’s purpose is one of the most enlightened that books have seen in new memory, and it is summarily executed with nothing less than perfection. The images included within are spectacularly striking; They represent the height of recording the visual poetry that Nature, and more specifically the Ocean, puts forth each and every day. Click to continue »

The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 2nd Edition

The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 2nd Edition – Review
This frequently updated 2nd edition (2008) is aimed at a broad audience, but it contains a abundance of detail on the latest science. The amount of detail is probably the book’s maximum strength and perhaps it’s maximum weakness in that I doubt it’ll convince the naysayers that GW is a major concern. (They’ll argue that it’s impossible to make any valid predictions failed the various factors affected.) The author is objective for the most part but it’s clear he believes GW is a main problem- however, for balance, he probably should have presented more of the “CON” pov. GW is a very controversial issue- but one thing is clear from postings on the internet (including this site): some people are truly idiots Ignore all of the clamor and continuous debate about whether GW, if it occurs at all, is “natural” or “man-made” or whatever. It’s irrelevant! Someday, our planet will have another ice age- and it’ll be a “natural” event but few would argue that’s desirable. Likewise, using GW to justify anti-globalization is naive since few appreciate how much our new lifestyle (and real comfort) depends on it and oil and gasoline for that matter. Click to continue »

The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy (Politics and the Environment)

The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy (Politics and the Environment) – Review
Written by a physician and a lawyer, this book requires to make a strong argument that liberal democracy is dangerous to the survival of the environment. They instead advocate a technocracy, a state ruled by experts. Their argument is very weak. At the onset, they acknowledge that totalitarian regimes have fared less well in names of carefully preserving the environment than autonomous regimes. Still they find fault because democracy lacks the ability of long-term planning. The main problem behind their argument is the lack of study of the creations of real free states. Click to continue »