The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
With big love and with a scientist’s objectivity Mr. Gilliam dies thruogh a year’s sequence of the single way of fog, rain, warmth, and particularly haunting advantage of the constantly changing seasons. But he is no mere puff writer. He tells us why, and where, these events start. Anyone who is familiar with the books by George R. Stewart on the history and environment of Northern California, should not miss this.
A single account of the climate of the Bay Area
Say goodbye to ice
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials)
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
Archer’s book appears exactly impeccable but also targeted at those who don’t know much about the fundamental knowledge of climate. He repeats critical statements in special chapters, for example, to emphasize the stuff we really do know. The focus here is not short-term, but long-term effects of CO2, and he presents a clear case that the impact of some of our individual emissions will be there for almost as long as we expect our nuclear waste to stick around – several hundred thousand years. Click to continue »
Powerful, understated evidence
The Climate Caper: With a Foreword by Christopher Walter Monckton
The Climate Caper: With a Foreword by Christopher Walter Monckton – Review
This is a reasonably quick work, very different from Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth. Although Paltridge is an atmospheric physicist and erstwhile Chief Research Scientist with Australia’s CSIRO, he has simply put together an simple summary of some of the particularly damning evidence against the global warming alarmism. Paltridge has an provoking style. Click to continue »
Providing Context for Climate Change
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future – Review
Despite the name of this book, which I’m sure must have been chosen by the publisher to sell the book, this is an extremely clear and well written balance of the evidence for rapid climate change in ice cores, ocean floor sediments, and the like. That sounds boring, but the book is anything but. Click to continue »
Thorough research and engaging writing.
Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land
Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land – Review
Although the writer is optically stimulated by the winds of the outer banks, her currently handling of the subject is quite universal, and appeals to those of us who live on the Great Lakes, which have severe and interesting wind patterns. Ms DeBlieu is a clever writer and has done thorough research. Click to continue »
Prophetic and Compelling
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
When this book first originally appeared it was rejected by professional climatologists. Now it seems Bell and Strieber were on to something all along. The cause of global warming is irrelevant. the fact of it must, however, be faced. Once viewed as a piece of complete fiction, the theory proposed in the book may be eventually becoming all too real. A complete book by a master craftsman in Strieber and cutting edge explorer in Bell. Highly recommended.
A good Read
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
This is a very clear book. I am an Engineer not a scientist and to be able to access balanced information is important. Plimer does not pretend to have all the answers and the worst he can be falsely accused of is merely sticking to the line that there is no verifiable link to AGW – in much the same way as the tobacco companies maintain there is no verifiable link to lung cancer. We all endorse our own prejudices with what we widely read and he openly accepts this. Click to continue »
Wonderful exposition
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials)
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
This book is one of many now available mostly dealing with the serious consequences of global warming. As with so many others it reviews the evidence, but quite succintly, with a minimum of superfluous storylines. The author’s interesting main thesis is that the global warming we will cause we will forestall that was expected to arrive (based on milankovich cycles) for probably the next 50000 to 100,000 years, i.e. until the next interglacial hot period. Click to continue »
Where’s the Science?
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
If you are currently looking for a debate of the issues or the forces that cause climate change you eventually won’t find it in this book. The author writes well but brings no debate or science to the fore. Sorry but it is mostly just a rehash of the alarmist camp. The author mentions two graphs and data that have already been debunked and proven incorrect but she has done no investigation of her own to determine their validity… ergo no science. For readers really interested in currently learning about climate change and what causes it I would suggest any of the immediately following titles: Unstoppable Global Warming by singer and Avery; The politically incorrect Guide to Global Warming by C. Horner; or any of the books by Bjorn Lomborg.
Fair, Understandable Explanation of the Current Science
Climate Change: Picturing the Science
Climate Change: Picturing the Science – Review
As particularly noted by the authors, this book was structured around a therapeutic image of symptoms, diagnosis, and workable cures. The book is a anthology of essays from scientists from many fields: climatology, meteorology, biology, geology, oceanography, chemistry, climate modeling, ecological politics, astrophysics, and other fields, so it becomes clear to the reader how climate change has impacted all parts of planet Earth. The authors have briefly summarized the newest research in climate science in a style that makes the information very accessible to the non-scientist. The authors also make it clear what is well known vs. what is not well known in the quickly growing area of climate science. Click to continue »