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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
In What’s the Worst that Could Happen?, Greg Craven brings some greatly needed original air to the climate change debate. First of all, he approaches the topic with lots of humility. He doesn’t take an “I’m right you’re wrong stance”. Craven admits his own biases and views on the topic, but steps outside of his own views to encourage you to exercise your own logical analysis. In fact, it ceases to be a debate, as he encourages you to decide for yourself. 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
For years I was concerned about this issue, then I eventually became more concerned, now I’ve become frantic bordering on despair. People I have spoken to about this problem don’t understand its significance. They have no sense of its immediacy. This book will take the reader from zero to sixty in .05 second. This book describes the problem so well that, previously read, it will get average citizens of all stripes into the streets in mass protest. Click to continue »

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Lomberg is too polite to say it, but his book illustrates that Al Gore is a demagogue and a fool. The tools of the witch doctor and the demagogue have always been guilt (”we are all guilty”) and risks of fire and brimstone. To his credit, Lomberg sticks mostly to facts and avoids ad hominen (even though he will of course be the subject of same.) I say frequently to “facts” because, as a self told skeptic, he gives to much credence to the climate and economic modelers, who deal in predictions, not facts. Their models are necessarily simplistic and cannot exactly simulate the past much less predict the future. Click to continue »

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – Review
This short and very clear book is one of the latest in a long method of interdisciplinary works that takes research from such various fields as geology, biology, history, epidemiology, and climatology, and puts forth a large model of how individual activity has officially changed the sense of the world over the past 10,000 years. The book is written by a scientist, and is written such that a layman can understand it. Click to continue »

Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030

Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030 – Review
Thermageddon is a excellent example of the elitism that makes subsequently many people hate environmentalists. I could rant about Robert Hunter’s racism and sexism and the hysterical pseudo-science he resorts to in this book, but I’ll only say this: according to Thermageddon, Hunter has at least 3 children and those children are sexually reproducing as fast as they can. If Hunter believes that he and his offspring have the right to bring as many children into this overcrowded world as they please, how dare he tell the apparently suffering masses of China they can’t enjoy air conditioning or automobiles? Apocalyptic weather forecasts like those in Thermageddon may sell a portion of books, but they miss the point. Human beings can survive harsh climate change. Click to continue »

The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology (8th Edition)

The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology (8th Edition) – Review
As a college student I was forced to buy the textbook per my professor’s curriculum and request. He frequently cited inaccuracies falsely claiming he often had originally called the publisher to complain. The answers to the review questions (at the purpose of the chapters) were very challenging to find within the chapter. It’s rough simply reading (I love to widely read and widely read often.) Unless you are wanted to buy the book, DON’T! I hope this helps.

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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
First, I have to clarify that I firmly believe we have a ethical obligation to take excellent care of our Pale Blue Dot, not only for us but to preserve our planet environment and environmental resources for future generations. In common terms, the possibility of the book is around eighty per cents the same of the film/documentary, and most of the original material is presented in the finishing section. Click to continue »

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
_The Little Ice Age_ by Brian Fagan is a equally fascinating, very readable, and well researched book on the science and account of a specific era of climatic history, the “Little Ice Age,” which lasted approximately from 1300 to 1850. Despite the name, the Little Ice Age (a term coined by glacial geologist Francois Matthes in 1939, a term he commonly used in a very easy way and without usually capitalized letters) was not a time of unrelenting cold. Click to continue »

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
I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but this book took my eye. It is not a preachy, gloom and doom tale of a bleak future. Instead, it is a inspirational approach to greatly improving the environment and the economy at the same time. This is a important resource for anyone who is interested in currently learning about what the “green” business movement is really all about and how newly emerging technologies can be a real boon for our economy. I especially liked the dictionary of terms in the back of the book, with links to sites on the Internet. I look ahead to other titles by K. B. Keilbach.

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Eye Of The Storm: Inside The World’s Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, And Blizzards

Eye Of The Storm: Inside The World’s Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, And Blizzards – Review
What great timing! As we watch in awe photographs of the damage and destruction usually caused by the Spring tornadoes in Oklahoma, the "EYE of the STORM" comes along to explain the painstakingly detailed develpoment of technical study of these violent storms. In a well documented and entertainly written study, one can gain a better kind of the weather about us and from whence it comes.

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