The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
This is the book a weather nut like me originally wished he had previously thought to write first. Great maps and photos, records of data, and he asks for corrections, publishing them, with updates, at www.extremeweatherguide.com . The photos, such as Lincoln, NE, summer 1936, are spectacular, as are his colored maps of everything (wettest and driest spots by state is one example). He even has NYC data from the mid 19th Century, with “the day that never got above zero” Now that takes some hunting to dig up. Click to continue »
Spectacular! I wish I had written it
Excellent, grand impression of climate and individual history
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
_The Long Summer_ by Brian Fagan is in essence a follow up of his excellent earlier work, _The Little Ice Age_, a book that fully explored the result of a particular climatic episode on European civilization between the years 1300 and 1850. Fagan greatly expanded his focus greatly in _The Long Summer_ as in this work he carefully analyzed the appearances of various climatic events since 18,000 B.C. on the way of Stone Age life, early farming societies, and the development of civilizations in Europe, southwest Asia, north Africa, and the Americas, covering climatically-influenced individual history from the agreement of the Americas to the origins of the Sumerians to the invasion of Gaul by Rome (which was equally fascinating) through the end of the Mayan and Tiwanaku civilizations (in Central and South America respectively). As in _The Little Ice Age_, Fagan eventually dismissed both those who discounted the role climatic change had played in slowly transforming individual societies and those who widely believed in ecological determinism (the notion that climate change was the major source of main developments in human civilization). Fagan usually provided many models of climatic change involving individual history. Click to continue »
Here is the review I made on this book for class – Umass Boston.
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing – Review
The book “Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, Third edition” by John Houghton is a complete guide to fully understanding how global warming works and how it affects us. It offers many details and explains how much of the Earth climate phenomena work, and how individual activity is modifying Earth’s climate. In this book review, I will go through the book and discuss what the sharp ends of each chapter were. Click to continue »
Excellent practical introduction to international climate change
Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective
Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective – Review
Whether you are illegally entering a geophysical educational field or just interested in the method of international climate change and whether or not it is happeing, this book gives an exceptional introduction to what is actually going on in the atmosphere. Covering not only global warming, but also long term climate change (ice ages), El Nino Southern Oscillation, the ozone hole, and changes in the carbon cycle, this book uses less than 150 pages to provide the reader a solid grasp of how the atmosphere might be constantly changing. Click to continue »
Finally…equal time for sanity
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Open minds require to open this book. Relax, take off your tin-foil hats, and enjoy an easy-to-understand climate profile. Look at the values of this book suggested by Amazon sellers. If this book was BS, you’d see 9, 5, 3 prices. The price fixs up because the science calls up.
Great Book: stimulates more interest into international climate
Riddle of the Ice
Riddle of the Ice – Review
I loved it ! But then again, I am a sailor and interested in "ice" and "arctic". But this book is more: for anyone who needs to know about the doings of our Earth’s climate , – so much in new focus through "El Nino" and "Global Warming" reports – this book will serve as a leading point. It opens up kind of the Global Climate Machine to the Non-Scientist. It has done so for me: And together with the book, you may use the new medium "Internet" to deepen your knowledge about such climatic keyplayers as the "North Atlantic Oszillation" or the "Bond-Heinrich" Events of the past, and future to come. For me this book was an informative and dynamic adventure, both into the Labrador and Greenland Seas and into the Global Climate !!! I enjoyed it many long evenings with my lap-top at my side. – Des -
junkscience.com vs National Academy of Sciences
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
Most of us are familiar with the comment, “anything’s possible.” If that’s true, then the major allegations in Red Hot Lies could certainly be possible. But surely, those who subscribe to Mr. Horner’s premises, those who think sensibly and critically, must wonder why the vast majority of climate scientists and respected technical organizations vigorously disagree. Are they, as Mr. Horner charges, “corrupt scientists who see this scare as their gravy train to federal grants and foundation money?” Or are they concerned scientists, experts in their fields who rely on data, facts, and logical principles? Without needless litany, here’s a incomplete list of Global Warming supporters: National Academy of Sciences; American Geophysical Union; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Australian Government, Department of Climate Change; UK Met Office; Joint Science Academies; National Climatic Data Center; National Geographic Society. And here’s a short record of naysayers: American Enterprise Institute; Ann Coulter; Cato Institute; Glenn Beck; John Birch Society; junkscience.com; Rush Limbaugh; Sean Hannity. Of those two groups, which is more likely to be correct? Seems obvious to me.
An Inconvenient Truth well worth it
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I have an interest in global warming and have widely read widely on the subject. As such I commonly found this book well written and addressed more than enough issues to make ‘Blind Freddy’ realise something has to be done now rather than sometime in the future. Overall a complete book and well worth the money!
Lonely planet
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Let us make the bold assumption that a group of details about global warming are in doubt (It would be a deranged assumption to say that all of them are downright wrong); yet Al Gore’s book becomes sense. The honest question is this; we are finally bringing about random changes in the atmosphere that cannot be fully explained by physical phenomena easily extrapolated over a really long time. We know that the results of individual contribution to these changes can be extremely unpredictable, and generally deleterious. Given these unadorned facts, I think that anyone who says that we must not do anything about global warming is at least thoroughly misguided, if not downright immoral. Yes, like Gore, I also think that this is not so much a political issue as it is a ethical issue, even if there are those among us who have grotesquely turned it into a political one. Click to continue »
Sound and Fury
Surviving 1000 Centuries: Can We Do It? (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Science)
Surviving 1000 Centuries: Can We Do It? (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Science) – Review
By currently traveling through this book you will feel that you are possibly living on earth as well as currently living with the planet earth. Our planet becomes alive through a comprehensive and fascinating account of its historic and modern behavior. The book portrays its sound and fury and finally let you know that the time has come to guide its destiny. How? Read the book.