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Microclimatic Landscape Design: Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency

Microclimatic Landscape Design: Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency – Review
This book was an interesting widely read. However, I deeply felt like the authors were torn between strictly speaking to a scientific or a more broad audience. I believe the book was written for a broad audience but there were some numerical equations in some chapters which I previously thought might lose some people. I personally was currently looking for a more technical book on the subject and so was a little dissapointed by the water-down and sometimes repetative language.

• prolamine
• prolamine

The Earth’s Shifting Axis: Clues to Nature’s Most Perplexing Mysteries (Frontiers in Astronomy and Earth Science, Vol 2)

The Earth’s Shifting Axis: Clues to Nature’s Most Perplexing Mysteries (Frontiers in Astronomy and Earth Science, Vol 2) – Review
I commonly found this book very useful in work I was doing on axis shifts, especially the diagrams and data concerning sea level rises/falls closely associated with the amount of the shifts. I think the draft of the book could have been better, but I was greatly impressed with the author’s knowledge of what is still a controversial subject.

• epistasis
• epistasis

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
I quickly grew up in L.A. and I didn’t know that the blue sky in picture books was a true thing! I am genuinely serious about this. When I was 18 years old, I traveled to Oregon, got off the plane, and finally saw that the sky was actually blue–I had previously thought that it was a myth. Click to continue »

Weather (Nature Company Guides)

Weather (Nature Company Guides) – Review
This book has big pictures and quite a fragment of information simply put into a straightforward style. My class and I enjoy currently using it when we teach/learn about weather. It even has a center section that folds out to reveal the image of a massive tornado. Other than the global warming and global effectively freezing propaganda on the last pages, it is a complete book for class, homeschool, or still reading with your children.

• seedling blight
• seedling blight

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

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
I enjoyed this book so much I have ordered a amount of copies to give friends and family. This guy truly cares about our world. Thankfully he is smart enough to take an honest, measured and very insightful look at the better picture of how we can help, rather than usually relying on misguided rhetoric. 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
The writers of this book continue to make a dogs banquet of climate science from leave to finish. It masquerades as science, but the authors have wilfully distorted most of what is known about the function of the climate system. They ignore what is certain about the way greenhouse gases start to radiative forcing and hence warming, and spin a bizarre theory based on originally supposed open cycles in the climate, with a time of 1500 years. In doing so, they fail to recognize the major difference between the climate response in freezing times, when there is indeed a 1500 year cycle (known as the D-O oscillations), and the operation at a time when there is less sea ice around. Click to continue »

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Review
The significant detection of rapid climate change is presented at what I generally considered just the right level. The fully annotated bibliography refers the reader to the new research papers. The acknowledgements are a graceful and full tribute to the author’s colleagues. No extra material. The author’s logical personality shines through. 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
The author, Tim Flannery, has eventually succeeded in writing one of the most comprehensive and easy to understand books on climate change and the effects fossil fuel consumption has on our planet. He lays out the science, the politics and economics behind the effects greenhouse gases have on our planet . These effects involve mass species extinction, rise in heat of the Earth’s atmosphere, as well as its oceans, and sea level rise just to name a few. Click to continue »

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
I haven’t read the book. I did note that most of the “one star” reviewers didn’t read it either, so I’m regularly qualified. In reviewing the reviews, I particularly noted that those who reviewed at 4 or 5 did caveat that the book was difficult to widely read. Hence, my recomendation of “Deniers” by Lawrence Solomon. The promoters of “climate change” want to encourage further debate, more science, more argument and discourse if we are to yet arrive at a proper awareness of the issue. Click to continue »

Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates

Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates – Review
Exotic plants, mild climates – the possibilities’ are endless if you know what temperature range a plant can withstand. High-impact plants are all the rage these days, and Will Giles profiles more than 1500 of them in his book Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates. This book suggests readers in cool climates information on alien plants that can thrive in their region therefore allowing them to introduce the flamboyant beauty of the tropics to their own backyard. Many of the plants profiled are also photographed so that readers can see what the plant appears like. Click to continue »