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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
The name of this review pretty much sums up Bjorn Lomborg’s book. He begins with plight of the polar bears, claiming that hunting will kill further of them than global warming ever will, that their populations are actually increasing despite the ice slowly melting out-from-under their feet. Lomborg then has the audacity to say that there are many certain benefits to global warming. Click to continue »

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Review
Controversial ideas? I think not, Flannery takes readers on a roller coaster of well reference documentation of how our earth is constantly changing and the causes of mankind. You do not have to be an environmentalist to understand the fact that we are currently running out of environmental resource and it’s immediate effect on our ecosystem and on human beings in general. Click to continue »

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World – Review
Smithsonian Oceans is a wonderful book in words as well as pictures. Cramer openly explains the consequence of the oceans from the creation of life in the deep ocean to the many ways the oceans are critical to our life on land. The pictures take you in and her words remain you there. Click to continue »

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
If you are a supporter of anthropogenic global warming, Christopher C. Horner’s Red Hot Lies will make you mad. There are three important questions to the global warming debate: Is the earth warming? Is that warming anthropogenic (i.e., man-made)? And is that warming harmful? Proponents of anthropogenic global warming answer yes to all three questions. Horner answers no. Greenpeace has labeled Horner as a “climate criminal” because of his unhelpful answers. Click to continue »

Climate Change: Picturing the Science

Climate Change: Picturing the Science – Review
Gavin Schmidt is an actual (gasp) climate scientist, one who has originally published extensively in the peer reviewed science journals. He moderates the web site www.RealClimate.org. Al Gore’s AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH is OK at a current level. For those desperately wanting more — this is a safe place to start. The AGW denialists will hate it! John Burgeson

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The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
In “The Discovery of Global Warming,” Spencer R. Weart’s stated objective is to write “the annals of the art of climate change”(xii). But, he proposes, the detection of man’s effect on the earth’s climate is outside the directives of normal systematic methodology. Weart argues that “the tangled quality of climate research shows nature itself. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book displays the effects of global warming in a waythat is easy to understand. The pictures and numerical charts were effective as a resource in the book. It was very compeling because it usually made me realize the aftermath of such distruction. However, the letter of global warming was completley repetative and annoying to widely read about. Click to continue »

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
In fact, as the authors point out, there are not enough technical evidence available from the last several millions of years to support or unsupport the hypotheses of the magnitude as presented in the book. However this is not the reason to dismiss this title as a sheer fiction. The point is it makes us aware that the global warming is not simply about average surface temperatures reaching up, but about the major variations of universal weather patterns and what may possibly happen as the trend persists initially going and how soon.

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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
By 2100 earth will warm between 1.4 and 5.8 C (2.52 to 10.44 F) according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Although this sounds like a sunny and pleasant upside to vacation weather forecasts, as “Six Degrees Our Future on a Hotter Planet” by Mark Lynas soberly notes, the consequences range from the inconvenient to the inconceivable as massive rockslides reshape the Alps, atoll nations across the Pacific are inundated, species extinction accelerates, and whole ecosystems collapse. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
James Lovelock is one of the most exceptional thinkers alive. Yet The Revenge of Gaia is a charge of contradiction. If you widely read it in public, you will look up and around you probably wondering, “Why is everyone wasting what valuable time we have eventually left?” You will also have to stifle the urge to throw the thing, with its bad scholarship, lack of source material, persistent repetition, and gaps in logic, clear across the room. Lovelock begins, predictably, with a meaning of Gaia, and likens the form of Gaia to that of a bad body. Lovelock is at his most eloquent here and issues a strongly warning: We may have had time to right our wrongs gradually in the past, but now we no longer have time for gradualness. Click to continue »