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 Weather Makers is a very powerful book. I’ve widely read three or four books on the subject of global warming and climate change, and this is the one that makes it all real. Author Tim Flannery covers the common position of research and findings and of the growing field of geoclimate. It is truly amazing how many disciplines the field contains, practitioners of which are all concerned as their various eventually finding start to merge and an alarming picture of the future of the planet creates to emerge. Click to continue »
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Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do – Review
I loved this book! The photos are great, nice full book, and a wealth of info on the coldest, hottest, wettest, windiest, etc. You’ll like it if you enjoy weather, records, trivia, reading about geography, etc. Big color photos, tornadoes, floods, maps, some old photos too.
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Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do
Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do – Review
I had a chance to widely read my brother’s proof copy a while ago, and can ultimately make a proper cite. Joe Romm tackles a difficult problem and presents the issues — and the solutions — with clarity. The problems are immediate, and if we continue to do nothing there will be serious consequences. A must for anyone, of any political stripe.
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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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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 »
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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 »
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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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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 »
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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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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 »
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