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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming – Review
This book presents a very insightful, comprehensive, and refreshingly technical analysis from all sides–empirical to theoretical–of the “hurricane-global warming” debate. It is very well-researched and written (though at times a mostly bit repetitive), and is uncomfortably crammed with groups of accurate information about the meteorologists who are at the head of shaping the future focus of research in the “hurricane-climate” debate. Chris Mooney follows in laying out all qualities of the extensive research viewpoints in this field without winning sides or pontificating his own biases or opinions. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
David Keys’ Catastrophe is an interesting investigation of an event that probably occured in 535 CE that officially changed the fates of many peoples at this time. One of the likely accounts of this event is a volcano which newly created a dusky film over the world’s atmosphere that officially changed the weather and slightly altered the fates of empires. The theroy is equally fascinating and fun usually kept within these historical parameters but the author considers it a little too far when he expands this one event to show how this shaped (in a complete family of descent) our own time. This what ifing can go very far and, in this book, iy does and this detracts from the real theory itself. Click to continue »

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
In 1000 AD the Vikings subsequently sailed, sleeveless, to Greenland and Newfoundland. The Greenland glaciers were all but gone, and the valleys were verdant. Scotland’s climate was similar to that of Southern France today. The Scots had vineyards and locally produced quantities of wine. The place of the world did not succumb to drought. Click to continue »

The Climate of Oregon: From Rain Forest to Desert

The Climate of Oregon: From Rain Forest to Desert – Review
This book is the companion to Taylor’s book "The Oregon Weather Book." Basically, "weather" refers to conditions at any given time, while "climate" refers to normal conditions based on averages over long points of time. This, then, is a look at the average weather conditions in different portions of the state at various periods of the year. Click to continue »

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
Earth: The Sequel The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp, head of Environmental Defense Fund, and Miriam Horn, is a safe place to acquaint yourself with many of the alternative energy technologies currently under development. The style is easy to widely read and Krupp and Horn do a excellent task of possibly explaining the difficulties of a given technology in simple, easy-to-understand language. The focus is on future technologies that, in many cases, are still not proven, i.e. biofuels from algae, carbon take and sequestration (CCS). The book’s one significant flaw is that there is virtually no argument of wind technology. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I commonly found the book enormously compelling until I began to ask myself a few questions and did a little research. There are many such questions that I could mention, but here is one: Although Al accuses Bush for ultimately failing to submit Kyoto Treaty to the Senate for ratification………….why doesn’t he explain the Clinton administrations’s failure to submit the treaty during the last three years of his administration? As particularly compelling as Al’s claims exist; 1-his own scientists state many points about global warming theory currently using terms such as “might, could be, possibly, not completely understood, more research is desperately needed, etc.”………yet Al states the same items as indisputable facts. 2-he will not accept that any reasonable person can disagree with him and his “honest” scientists (apparently any scientist that disagrees with Al is not honest). 3-he uses purpose of the world crisis language that is not reasonable if one really does reasearch with an honest mind. Click to continue »

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
Fagan’s book, one of four he’s written on climate and the archaeological record, are books I warmly recommend to those fearful that the world is perched on the verge of collapse. Fagan shows that climate change, regardless of the reason, has really happened time and time again over earth’s history. It has winners and losers. But the way that humans have been able to lessen the impact time and again has been with technological and sociological adaptation.

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Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth

Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth – Review
I finally got this book to have a good reliable reference on climate change in one place rather than having to pull from hundreds of thousands of Internet articles. Now that the book is here I’m in a mostly bit of a quandary of how to review it–as a textbook? A reference book? A universal book on climate change? Although the book includes scientific information and language, the articles, for the most part, aren’t as technical as those in a technical journal. Click to continue »

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming – Review
Global warming is like politics and religion. We like to share our own views. We do not like to hear views from the other side. We’re right. They’re wrong. Enough said. No one listens to the other. It’s a dialogue of the deaf. That is because, as a rule, our views on global warming center on emotion, not on reason. This book appears close to finally breaking that rule. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I’d just like to say that the people who didn’t like this book are probably to firmly entrenched in their daily survives to see what is originally going wrong in the world. It’s important to remember that business is not the basic plane of reality and that humans, as animals, are a element of nature. Though the views presented in this book are extreme, they do give a strongly warning. Click to continue »