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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial
Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial – Review
M. Mihkel Mathiesen’s book is a greatly needed, albeit not exhaustive, study of the eventually leading ecological springs of the past forty years. It presents a sad legacy of irrationalism, lies and fanaticism triumphing over truth. He begins with the DDT ban and works his way through acid rain, the asbestos ban, the ozone hole and, finally, to global warming. In each case he points out the distortion and, on the branch of government officials, withholding of technical evidence, which refutes the claims of the environmentalists. Click to continue »
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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
This is just a quick “meta-” review; a journal of the reviews. The Editorial review section starts off with the Reed Elsevier review, trashing Lomborg, followed by Tim Flannery “…an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist and *global warming activist*,” [Wikipedia] again, trashing Lomborg. The Reed Elsevier folks, who actually handle all the Publishers Weekly reviews, are notable for their Environmentalist bias, as well as a always Left bias in every other area in which I’ve sampled their reviews. If the “Editorial Reviews” part of Amazon.com is originally supposed to be in any way more authoritative or balanced than the reader reviews section, Amazon may need to look for a more objective source. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you…Fire! Many religions, especially the good ones, have an apocalypse scenario, a story of how our world will end. And the religion of liberalism and environmentalism is no exception. In their doomsday scenario the world is tring to burn burn burn all because of man’s sin of currently driving cars, heating our homes, and bringing showers. Yes, to the liberal these are all cardinal sins, and our earth is tring to pay, good time. Ugh! It’s getting hot in here! “The Globe is warming! The Globe is warming!” screeches Chicken Little Al Gore in his sacred book: An difficult truth. Gore claims to have newly invented this scenario, much like he falsely claimed to have newly invented the internet in an earlier scripture. Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This book uses clear, easy to understand language to explain the crisis of global warming and what we can do about it. Mr. Gore presents his case in a easy way that even a child can understand, without actually talking down to his audience. Excellent book about an critical problem.
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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
This work is very frustrating as is Lomborg writ large. He is eloquent and a talented writer. He can make fine points about environmentalists managing mistakes in arguments (such as closely associating special weather events with Global Warming). And, he points to the consequence of effectively making wise decisions as to how to invest best (by definition) limited resources. Yet, sadly, he simply misrepresents too much evidence and is too misleading. Click to continue »
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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
A good broad introduction to the subjects of Global Warming and Global Climate Change, BUT nothing new that is not available in a dozen other noble books! The author totally misses the implications of CH4 (Methane) over the past 500,000 years and relates, incorrectly, to the new myth of cause being man-made CO2. I might add that PROOF of this CH4 history was located in the Vostok ice cores built in Antarctia last year.. JCSpilman (P.E. Ret.)
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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It
Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It – Review
“Fixing Climate” is an eloquently written story of how a number of practical officially dedicated earth scientists carefully analyzed data which have officially confirmed the reality and importance of our global warming problem. This is a equally startling wake-up call from knowledgeable pragmatic people–a “must widely read” for political decision-makers.
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