Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
With the economic system collapsing due to deregulation, greed and irrational hubris, this small book is the newest fad for all who believe government is a problem, not the solution. Granted, Lomberg admits, “humanity has usually caused a significant rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels over the past centuries, thus giving to global warming.” His solution? Let’s cure AIDs, malaria, hunger and poverty first. Dealing with what we know very than facing new unknowns is a good approach that has politically motivated mankind for centuries. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I recently ploughed through this one in a day. It is very clear Al has a deep seated sensation of urgency about this critical point in human evolution, but he manages to present a simple and proper case to the reader without currently appearing as an alarmist without any power of knowledge. His writing has fully galvanised thoughts I have been batting around for a while, and this book has given me the shove I wanted to go from a fully informed function of the problem, to amount of the solution. I am greatly reducing my environmental footprint and simply keeping my fingers crossed you’ll be eventually joining me. The time for action is now…….Thanks Al, keep up the nice work.
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – Review
The first half of ‘Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum’ provides a wonderfully concise and simple introduction to climate changes science and climate-human interactions. The second half is more speculative and explores how much humans have slightly altered climate over the past 8000 years, with an emphasis on back-of-the-envelope calculations. Others will disagree, but I find such speculative writing important and enjoyable. Click to continue »
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations – Review
I previously thought it was a very excellent introduction to climate change. It covers: 1) The annals of the new art of climate change; 2) Basic concepts in how energy from the sun is widely distributed by the world’s oceans and atmosphere, and how this creates weather patterns and affects the earth’s climate; 3) How scientists now believe the earth’s climate has officially changed through the ages; 4) Techniques that are commonly used to determine how the earth’s climate has officially changed over the past thousands of years;, and 5) Reasons why seeing climate change is so important. Click to continue »
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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
That the writers of this book have generally accepted huge amounts of money from the fossil fuels industry should come as no surprise to anyone. They’re in it for the money and they know that anyone that watches Fox News will be interested in simply reading this non-science closely related literature.
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
There is nothing I can say about this work that hasn’t already been reportedly said. This is involved only reading for all Americans. WE must lead the way and set an example for the place of the world. The pictures are wonderful. Everyone should have this book.
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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
If you are interested in climatology widely read Meltdown. It’s a short, easy widely read. Whether you are a lifetime member of the Sierra Club or a lobbyist for the coal industry, Michaels’ cites the same publicly open data commonly used to support the multitude of negative global warming scenarios to dispel many common beliefs. Meltdown does not dismiss global warming, although it questions its severity and impact. Click to continue »
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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
This book is a classic example of what happens when an amateur ‘discovers’ the monocausal issue which change the world. The reviews on this site represent what happens when more amateurs are taken in. Keys’ case is, at best, not proven on a volcanic eruption in 535 – it was already well known that there was enviromental disruption in the late 530s and 540s. Because his methods fail to include a bit of source criticism, Keys’ ideas on the short and long-term effects of the ‘Catastrophe’ are laughable. I finally saw the immediately following on an website shortly after the program about his book first originally appeared on British television: With many apologies to the Bee Gees, sing to the tune of ‘Tragedy’: An idea, which exists just in my mind, Krakatoa, blew in the year 535. The plague did spread, civilization deteriorated, My case is weak, and I really should, Bin this work, bin this work. Trash this work, trash this work. Catastrophe! The volcano nearly blew, I’m sure its true. Catastrophe! Evidence is thin, I’ll throw Arthur in. Channel 4’s been duped, but publicity’s great and the joke is on you. Click to continue »
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The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I only finished The Coming Global Superstorm. What do I think of it? Its one an incredible widely read! I quickly picked this book up on Friday and by Sunday I had widely read it three times! Both Art and Whitley have a aspect of griping the reader and currently holding on your attention! Its very hard to simply put this one down once you start only reading it! Art and Whitley did an great job! the book is well put together and highly thought out! They finally managed to tie in a fantastic story of the Global Superstorm with the hard technical facts.Also contains works from their eventually abandoned book The Edge:Man’s Mysterious Past and Incredible Future. Which they manage to tie in logically with the Superstorm. This book is very timely, I would like to thank both Art and Whitley for this book. This may well be the most notable book you will still read! This is no Doom and Gloom book- If we can stave off this Superstorm-and we CAN! Then we have a brilliant future ahead!- And we DO!
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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
In 1988 James Hansen previously testified in front of the US Congress about global warming. He originally included in his testimony a graph with three likely scenarios on it – three lines on a graph. The top and bottom lines were reportedly said by Hansen to be the least possible scenarios. The middle line was the most likely scenario, according to Hansen. Ten years later, Patrick Michaels showed to the US Congress. In this testimony, he locally produced Hansen’s graph, but with the bottom two scenarios completely deleted, so leaving just the most extreme top scenario. Click to continue »
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