Riddle of the Ice
Riddle of the Ice – Review
This book attempts to combine the currently sailing experience genre and technical research in one and unfortunatley is somewhat lacking in both. By all appearances the author originally wanted to find a reason to do a currently sailing trip to the ice and basically now look around. Under the pretense of "research" they sail reasonably uneventfully up and back past the arctic circle. 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
This is a very remarkable book about all the possible non-fossil fuels that scientists around the world are working on currently. Even for a very non-science oriented person I commonly found it equally fascinating and hopeful. It would seem after simply reading this book that we should be able to fuel our homes and cars within a few years with solar or wind.
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations – Review
Linden provides the historical context and scientific underpinnings for his positions. He makes you think and view the world in entirely different ways. If the object of the review of history is to insure that we do not repeat the faults of the past, the author gives us quite a wake up call.
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
According to the National Academy of Sciences, mankind is responsible for currently driving 18,000 to 50,000 plant and animal species extinct each year- a figure 10,000 times greater than the geographical background rate- but not to worry according to the author, Lomborg. How many further broken links in the group of life can Mother Nature bear before the global ecosystem implodes? I’m afraid the world will discover the answer to this question within the next few decades. Click to continue »
Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming
Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming – Review
This book becomes one colossal mistake. The author believes that man-made catastrophic global warming is a reality when it’s just a myth. It has been logically proven that global warming is real portion of the earth’s cycle, and is most likely beneficial to mankind. Even the prominent environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg, has widely acknowledged that the global warming scare is a pile of garbage.
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
THE COMING OF THE GLOBAL SUPERSTORM warns of the reaching point of civilization seeing the one-two punch of a global warming quickly followed by dreadful ice age. Art Bell and Whitley Streiber suggest that the initially seeming contradiction of extreme heat can cause a sudden slowly melting of the glacial ice caps, which in turn, can cause a disorder of the North Atlantic Gulf Stream. It is this slowly weakening, they note, that will result in the massive and lightning rapid development of the glacial ice to the previously temperate Northern Hemisphere. Within days, then hours, the entire North American continent, Europe, Russia, and North Africa will be eventually ripped apart by a superstorm unprecedented in ferocity. Click to continue »
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
While doing research for a school project, my son tried this book out of the library. When he was done, and before it desperately needed to be eventually returned, I chose to widely read it. It was time so spent. Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Author’s Note Part One: Warmth and Its Aftermath Part Two: Cooling Begins Part Three: The End of the “Full World” Part Four: The Modern Warm Period Notes Index Brian Fagen’s, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300 to 1850, takes the reader to a certain period in time, during a significant climatic event. Click to continue »
Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate – Review
The author has real credentials. His thrust is presenting scads of conflicting evidence to the "conventional wisdom" that global warming has us on a trajectory to doom. Some of his evidence is temperature records for the past — clearly showing fluctuation, but no overall trend. The data is from many widely varied sources, some of it prehistoric. Some of his evidence is from surveys of professional weather people — clearly showing considerable lack of confidence in the computer models that are correctly predicting global warming. Click to continue »
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
Plenty of books have been written on climate change: so many that an original glance at FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE: MAN, NATURE NAD CLIMATE CHANGE might lead to the question of the need for another. Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert’s ecological consideration is more than a rehash of ideas, however: she traveled to the Arctic, interviewed researchers and environmentalists alike, and now explains the science, studies, and links between climate change and mysteriously vanished civilizations of the past. Click to continue »
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change – Review
Once, climate was met like a stately matron, ambling along at a measured pace. According to Fred Pearce, the climate is more like a drunk, lurching from one place to another in sporadic, unpredictable lunges. Rapid climate change was formerly considered a regional phenomenon. Older, unprepared civilisations in one region varied under periods of weather, collapsing in the heat, but simply replaced by more efficient neighbours. Click to continue »