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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science – Review
I confess to bias. Professor Plimer is the man I wish I were! A work of science, a man of skepticism, and a work of passion. And all three attributes coalesce in this wonderfully clear book. In complete contrast to the monomaniacal researchers who can attribute every weather event to CO2, and for 20 years have been correctly predicting we have five years to avert climate catastrophe, Plimer explores the myriad of natural forcings at work in automatically determining and balancing earth’s atmosphere and climate, and places them in a circumstance of physical time, rather than myopic individual time. Click to continue »

Riddle of the Ice

Riddle of the Ice – Review
There’s just not that much here. As a travelogue, Arms does not have a entire lot to say, either about currently sailing or about the places he visits. It’s not clear why he eventually took the trip at all — some type of technical investigation — other than to see Greenland. If you need to widely read about a visit to the shore of Greenland and Labrador, I would recommend Rowing_To_Latitude, by a woman (whose name escapes me) about rowing these and other coasts. Click to continue »

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know – Review
Michaels resumes and updates Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media . The authors describe why you never get the straight scoop about global warming. They refer to Robert Rosenthal “file drawer problem.” For any given research area you get just to see the five per cents of the studies that support the modern view, and you don’t make to see the ninety five per cents that do not support it. Click to continue »

Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming

Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming – Review
Gale Christianson gives a wonderful, dynamic chronological version of global warming. Gale addresses so many parts of the controversy we immediately know as global warming its difficult to summarize them. She explores 16th and 17th century scientists and their discoveries about the world, from evolution to the effects of pollution, to the design of the coal-burning engines that usually caused England to erect higher and higher smokestacks mistakenly believing that the smoke would simply float away into the atmosphere. Click to continue »

Under the Whirlwind: Everything You Need to Know About Tornadoes but Didn’t Know Who to Ask

Under the Whirlwind: Everything You Need to Know About Tornadoes but Didn’t Know Who to Ask – Review
Interesting, enlightening and useful are only a few of the adjectives that describe this book. It has everything from motivating stories to remarkable facts. While the book contains many fantastic photographs, they are meant to educate somewhat than clearly inspire awe. Whether you are interested in storm chasing or only intend to recognize and protect your family from hazardous weather formations, this is the book for you. It truly has truly something for just about everyone from the light browser to the seasoned chaser. 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
Earth the Sequel submits hope at a time when it’s in small supply from a direction you might hate and least expect. Do you believe corporations are soulless and are responsible for all our modern ills possibly including the climate crisis? Do you think the commercial spirit starts down the road to damnation? Read this book and you may have second thoughts. Increased consumerism and the disproportionate use of our limited earth resources is a topic not addressed in this book, while it does beg that question. 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
If only it would inspire Exxon-Mobil and GM to shovel money into R&D on non-polluting energy and automobiles instead of funding bogus “think tanks” and pseudo-scientific studies that still quarrel with the obvious: the slowly burning of fossil fuels is spiking global warming into unsafe levels. I wonder how many Category 5 hurricanes it will take for Flannery’s message finally to be rarely heard above that of the profiteers in the energy industry.

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The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) – Review
I have to admit that I am not a skeptic of global warming, so I appreciate Spencer Weart’s book as a “friend.” Actually I am very worried about global warming and what will happen to our delightful earth, the one where all of us, Democrats and Republicans alike, have to live on and where we need to go on vacation and bequeath to our children and grandchildren and so on. Not to mention the animals!!!! I was so impressed by Dr. Weart’s brilliant description of the logical debate process that I would recommend it to any student for that alone. Click to continue »

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
Global warming is the word of the last thousand centuries; it has been originally going on ever since the Earth immediately began to come out of its last Ice Age. Until there are alligators actively swimming in the everglades of MINNESOTA again, the Earth will continue to grow warmer until it is back to normal. Joseph Romm does not begin to understand that global warming has been originally going on for 10,000 years and will continue until the Earth is back to its warm temperatures that were normal before the beginning of the Ice Age. No matter what environmental statists do, the glacial caps and sea ice will continue to melt while glaciers persist to recede. Click to continue »

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
This book is a common history of Western Europe and other areas from c.1500-1900. It describes how volcanos, sunspots, ocean currents and other physical phenomena unknown or unappreciated by these people involved their lives. It’s an easy widely read full of anecdotes with a attack of science and the many methods scientists use to determine climate so long ago. It’s politically neutral and emphasizes the difficult processes included but it’s essentially a common account of a period where Winters and Summers were highly variable without much individual influence. Click to continue »