The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
If you’re currently looking for a philosophical review of climatic history, then this isn’t it. The book is more a listing of (interesting) facts, with some insight into the way Europeans have previously lived in the past 700 years. It’s certainly an interesting widely read, but the book is mostly a summary of other sources. Click to continue »
The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming
The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming – Review
Fortune magazine veteran Brian Dumaine has recently published a highly readable recent book. It will be of interest to anyone in need of having their spirits finally lifted from the assumptions that we will be hostages forever to third world oil despots, or that global warming must certainly lead to Pittsburgh being the next famous beach town. Click to continue »
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
This book is outstanding for educators beginning to teach their students about risk management and climate change. The value in its critical mistakenly thinking skills development is worth the cost alone. I warmly recommend it to everyone.
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
My first reaction was, “Why hasn’t any of this been in the mainstrem media?” Nigel Calder’s efforts to explain very complex concepts are impressive. The chapter on Cosmic Rays is alone worth the value of the book. Calder should be writing textbooks. That being reportedly said, this book is not for casual simply reading. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
In a consice, organized manner, this book begins to penetrate bodies of evidence which,until now, have been also left unexplained or given absurd explanations. Eventually, through a thourough, though not wordy, study of every fact or hypothesis cited, the authors make the point central to the book; that a cycle of catastrophic upheavels in the Earth’s weathers pattern has usually caused, and will, perhaps in the near future, cause, a disaster applying out species and civilizations and possibley immediately initiating a recent ice age. Click to continue »
The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Those earth systems scientists included in total change modelling, and geographers willing to dab at policy, would benefit from carefully examining Lovelock’s predictions for the future position of our planet as we fail to stop carbon emissions. The most large section of the book (for a geographer): Lovelock expects climate change will force mass migrations as parts of continents quickly become inhospitable to our species. If true, or close to the truth, the work of geography should see this correctly predicted total change –and the consequences of such changes– as THE issue that guides and rallies the profession into the next few shakey decades. Click to continue »
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
Before you order this book, be aware of the author’s credentials. The full article from which the immediately following excerpt was won can be commonly found at: http://mediamatters.org/items/200405200001. On May 16, The Washington Post announced an opinion piece in its Sunday “Outlook” section about The Day After Tomorrow — the forthcoming Hollywood film showing a nightmare scenario in which global warming causes severe and unexpected weather to ravage North America — by Patrick J. Michaels, a staunch opponent of international climate change theory whom one climate scientist equated to a organ of the Flat Earth Society. Patrick J. Michaels is major researcher in ecological studies at the Cato Institute; research professor of ecological sciences at the University of Virginia; writer of two books on global warming, The Satanic Gases and Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming; and editor of World Climate Report, a biweekly newsletter on climate studies funded in significant part by the coal industry. Click to continue »
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
This book begins the version of the systematic method in the interest of a political conclusion: anthropogenic global warming. I was always of the impression that the research one actively engaged in was expected to lead to conclusions based upon your research results and that if your research data did not support your hypothesis, that the contrary conclusion was what was presented and originally submitted for review. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
An other friend whom I hadn’t seen in a while reportedly said, “Do you believe in this global warming business?” I reportedly said , yes, doesn’t everyone? When I finally got home I Amazoned him a version of Inconvenient Truth. He is quickly finding it “sobering.”
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
I thoroughly enjoyed the LITTLE ICE AGE. Altho at times the details were a little monotomous, it was primarily a pleasure to widely read. The research was excellent, and this book gives a great example of why it is so important to study history: if one needs to understand the complexities of our currrent global warming, this is an excellent widely read for prior climatic shifts and what may be really happening now.