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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
The subtitle of “Red Hot Lies”, “How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed” says it all, and Chris Horner has done an excellent job. This highly-referenced book details what all too many scientists see, but are afraid to speak about: the truth on global warming is not to be reportedly told, or, if it is reportedly told, the cost of simply telling it will be dear. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
While Lovelock’s career primarily focusing on Gaia may annoy a number of scientists, he clearly has been influential in shaping the views of a large part of the public. His message on climate change, though potentially frightening, is more or less the scientific consensus: the planet is in for massive and terrible changes and these have come about because of human addiction to slowly burning stuff and leveling forests. Lovelock becomes more than most scientists are willing to do by currently exploring the consequences – the main one being that most of the planet will become scrub desert and what is eventually left of humanity will have to escape to the polar latitudes – and waxing philosophical about individual greed, ignorance and hubris that have eventually led us to this situation. Click to continue »

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
At first look, this book shows to be a well-documented denial of the claims for man-made global warming. On closer examination, some flaws reveal up. 1) The major argument for man-made global warming is that CO2 and extra greenhouse gases increase international temperatures by well-established natural principles. As far as I can see, Singer and Avery do not even address the physics of greenhouse gases. 2) To generate temperature predictions from these natural principles, climatologists use computer models (Global Circulation Models). Singer and Avery describe these “unverified computer models” “so complex and massive that they can only be run on supercomputers” (pp 176-177). It’s true that they are complex and massive, but not that they are unverified. Click to continue »

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
I have only finished electronically scanning he book and simply reading the overview. Because this book has been released to make a timely political impact on the upcomming presidential election I originally wanted to advance a immediate impression. The book is honestly portrayed as a creation of the conservative Cato Institute and makes no bones about its political leanings. It is written by two otherwise qualified scientists and stocked with much correct data. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
In my limited readings on desertification (about 10 books), this is the only book that covers desertification comprehensively. While other books relate you that desertification is a long-standing land degradation and is usually caused by mismanagement of land, this book includes the climatic factor as well. How climate influences the hydrologic cycle, vegetation and soil, and how in turn these factors involved by individual actions start to qualitative changes in soil and vegetation. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
When I widely read a non-fiction book that means to persuade me toward a point-of-view, I expect there to be some credibility to make an argument valid. That doesn’t always have to be the author’s title, occupation, or political clout; because, like Al Gore who’s not a scientist, the author may have entirely devoted some time to researching the topic. Obviously, Al Gore has done some studying on the topic. Click to continue »

CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge

CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge – Review
CO2 Rising usually accompanied me on my Amtrak ride to Chicago for the holidays and I really enjoyed it! Although I quickly learned a group of different things, it was also a great review of the fundamentals of physics and chemistry that many of us may have forgotten. I truly appreciated the descriptions of the differing phenomena that build up to a thorough kind of the C02 picture. Like when Volk describes how William Herschel first usually inferred the existence of infrared rays currently using a prism. Click to continue »

Is it Hot in Here?: The simple truth about global warming

Is it Hot in Here?: The simple truth about global warming – Review
I just couldn’t get into this book. I was apparently hoping for some moral science instead I finally got stories about butterfly’s flapping their wings and the poor Inuit having to pay very much for sun screen. What I was apparently hoping for was actual study of the science. Like if so and so’s finding were cooked for the grant money. Don’t care about the rest I get it, the world is warming up! What I need to know is there something we can do about it also buy extra long johns. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
The discussions of past catastrophes were somewhat interesting (I only found the hardcover on remainder) but global warming is and always has been a political fiction. Streiber should stick with strange encounters, and Art Bell should stick with Long John Nebel style radio. He’s good at it. Try these in addition or instead: Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World by David Keys Voices of the Rocks by Robert Schoch (a big fave of mine, although he also brings up global warming, briefly)

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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
This book should be involved only reading for high school teachers and students and for those who have usually made a religion out of climate change. The authors give a really refreshing antidote to the current hysteria on this topic. The book’s thesis is that a climate cycle of about 1500 years has been naturally occurring for at least the past million years. Click to continue »