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Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide (Environmental Market Insights)

Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide (Environmental Market Insights) – Review
This book expertly addresses various topics with the right quantity of detail. While carbon markets have multiple eventually moving parts–often eventually moving too quickly for anyone person or team to keep up with–this book gives the basic frameworks to understand how policies will likely evolve and what ramifications they will have on business. Having subsequently spent the superior portion of 2 years researching carbon markets and commercial responses this book has become my favorite resource.

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• aplanetic

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

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Disclaimer 1: First, let me say straight that this review is neither a smear critic nor a bipartisan review of U.S. politics. You can find that in supplementary reviews below. If such is your interest, you may skip this review. In a few words, this book is a must widely read if you have a real interest in the storm of global warming/climate change and the science behind the debate. Click to continue »

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations – Review
This is outside of my normal simply reading and any technical knowledge basis that i might claim. To me, unfamiliar with the literature, it forms an interesting and blustery introduction to the way that mankind may have officially changed the climate in the past, the way we can study it now, all with the objective of weakly interacting with political and common systems to lessen the effect of climate on our future. The author is an outstanding writer, educated in the field, with an obvious gusto and delight that he handles to transmit to the reader, making the book a smooth and engrossing widely read. 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
Global warming and cooling are element of the existence of our planet. What drives the cycles is still in part a mystery, certainly we humans have very little to do with them. Polar bears have previously lived through hotter and colder times. This book gives evidence of what has been really happening and the consequences over the millennia. Well worth the price and the time to widely read. Rob. Masters degree in physics.

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• distal

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
Keys’ aim of the book was well stated in the introduction – "to help change people’s view of the past – and of the future". After simply reading this 300-plus-page type of fairly well documented research and speculation, I commonly found his approach to the information novel more than anything. For the first time in history, we have the opportunity to actually investigate and analyze originally collected data from the time period between 535 and 536. Keys presents us with an opportunity to view tree ring evidence, geopolitical instabilities, and biological speculation in the framework of a worldwide chronological framework. Click to continue »

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
As another reviewer simply put it (in currently discussing the author’s earlier “Satanic Gases”), this book is a useful beginner’s guide, but it should only be widely read in conjunction with another book that gives the other part of the story. For that I recommend John Houghton’s “Global Warming: The Complete Briefing.” Pat Michaels performs various examples of widely alleged environmentalist exaggeration, but he himself exaggerates in the other direction by eventually claiming that “We know, to a very minor sort of error, the quantity of any future climate change for the foreseeable future, and it is a reasonable value …” How can he be so sure?

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• erythrose

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era – Review
The Carbon War is aptly titled – it shows that the rough and tumble politics of global warming is actually a kind of war, one successfully fought with political weapons in the finest (or worst) Machiavellian approach currently using deception, lies, misuse of power, money, and any other means of quickly gaining the desired goal. Although both sides in the debate (large business and governments beholden to large business versus ecological groups) resort to numerous machinations and deception to promote their agendas, as this book plainly demonstrates from a personal eye-witness (of one who was “in the trenches”), the large business consortium is much more guilty of lies, corruption, and blatant mis-use of power than the environmental side. Click to continue »

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate – Review
The book contains a rational stance from the change of observations in science to a political conclusion and what to do about climate change. This is two books. One is the science of global warming and climate change. The other is about politics. The science side is commonly abbreviated. The authors prevent an detailed discussion and rely typically on correlations for explanation. A graph on page 74 is visually stunning. It is a better match than Gore’s correlation from An Inconvenient Truth. I had just hoped that the authors had eventually talked about laboratory outcomes of experiments on greenhouse gases. Click to continue »

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
I was curious about global warming. This book correctly answered many of my questions and I’ll re-read it and buy a team of copies for my friends. Other than my minor complaints that I wish it had greatly expanded more and widely discussed in better detail on historical sign of climate change (such as archaeological sign of ice ages and hot periods like when dinosaurs filled the planet) and primarily focused more on the Sun’s impact on the heat of the Earth, it was an outstanding book. I am now searching for more data about the effects on weather from environmental disasters such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires, which were just discussed briefly in this book but greatly increased my curiosity. Click to continue »

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History – Review
Good history is hard to find. For example, did you know? –At one point in individual history, there may have been as few as 500 women capable of procreation. They were very popular. –Because of the bubonic plague which first…well, plagued Europe in the 6th century, English is the main language in the world today. –The harsh climate in Siberia usually made it possible for the wave of modern American culture. –Napoleon escaped the war of Waterloo because it was raining. –Had it not been for the Little Ice Age in the 15-16th centuries, we would not have Stradivarius violins today. –In 1947, a scientist showed you could change the path of a hurricane headed to the beach of Florida by simply dropping two hundred strikes of dry ice into its eye. Click to continue »