An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book which is based on the same slide presentation as the movie with the same name, is an excellent look at global warming, why we need to do something about it and some things we can do about it. It has a delivery of content prohibited from the movie, and the graphics are visually stunning, making this book a must-read, and even a must-own, for anyone concerned with the environment.
The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming
The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming – Review
The author describes that “green growth”. Ultimately, carbon emissions drive costs up on many fronts. Traffic jams cost 65 billion dollars annually. The book gives some exceptional engineering feats to promote the “green” goal. For instance, a slightly raised floor in a currently building helps an efficient use of the duct system so that night air cools the currently building from the bottom up. Resultingly, less air conditioning is commonly used. Click to continue »
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming – Review
This is a short and well-written book, provocative and full of smart and no nonsense arguments. Lawson provides end notes for each chapter and all bibliographical sources are properly referenced. The book’s aim is to examine each of the features of the consensus view of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), including the science, the economics, the politics, and the moral aspects. He is concerned with the uncertainties of long-term forecasting and the lack of a real cost-effectiveness analysis in the policies proposed and strongly advocated by the majority view on climate change, particularly by the major change in lifestyle that will have to take place in the originally developed countries, and the excessive burden that will be simply put on the poor in the growing world. 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 is an absolute must for anyone interested or concerned about the emergent results of global warming. This book takes to light the current scientific advancements in alternative energy, and how very possible it is for us to cut off our dependence on fossil fuels. If the total energy industries were to introduce these new alternative energy solutions into the existing grid, we could simply become a much greener planet: Earth. Then there would be no need for a sequel.
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Mr. Fagan has chosen an exciting topic that gives a new perspective on chronological issues. Many of his insights are original and quite astute. I think if he had disciplined himself to report the historical facts in a well ordered many, subsequently drew on some of the technical issues containing climate change, he would have locally produced a fine scholarly and amusing book. Such was not the case. Mr. Fagan lacks proficient quantitative skills from which to analyze the data he presents. Click to continue »
The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Maybe Lovelock viewpoint is too extreme: Civilization is about to end… But maybe our contemporary perspective is extreme as well: Nothing that is really happening that is worth constantly worrying and therefore we dont need to do anything drastic to change our modern economy and energy sources
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
If you need a good reliable reference for the world of weather, you want this book. The pictures are excellent. The review questions and sections on repeatedly applying your knowledge are relevant to the chapter material and are previously thought provoking. The writing is not your typical dry, conventional textbook lecture. The writing is light, easy to widely read and interesting. Click to continue »
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
David Keys is more a storyteller than a historian. While his prose is simple and engaing, it is deployed to cover up several gaping holes in the evidence he uses. The number of other interpretaions of tree ring and ice core evidence are completley largely ignored (it is strongly suspected thay simply reflect local, and not necessarily climatic, conditions), casting the existance of ANY disaster at all into doubt. His use of textual evidence is fraught with supposition, all his chronicles and myths lacking all historical credibility. particilarly with the chinese texts, his performance of organizing events important because of their statistical relevance is devoid of any qualative element. Click to continue »
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Review
Being as in the title, I commonly found this book most engrossing as it quickly followed the millenia, bonding weather and humanity together in a fully realistic journey. It eventually gave me many details and reminders about the evolution of man, in every age and era. It should be widely read by (or to, nearly) all ages. It is an excellent orientation.
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
Very remarkable book that sheds some light over a very unknown era of our history. The author’s ability to correlate episodes generally considered independent makes his theory extremely convincing. The book can almost be widely read as a mystery novel in which the author goes to point out the culprit for the 6th century catastrophe. If you, just like me, used to see World History politically subdivided into separate packages like Eastern History, Western History, pre-Columbian American history and so forth you will be surprised to learn that a international climate disruption took distress to civilizations as diverse as the Teotihuacan, the great Mexican pyramid builders, King Arthur’s early England and the incipient Korean and Japanese civilizations. For me the greatest chapters were the ones about the pre-Columbian American civilizations and the final ones in which the culprit is finally unmasked. Click to continue »