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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Cause Celebres are to superstars and politicians what water is to life. Publicity, good or bad keeps them in business. Mr. Gore is currently using horror of life extintion on Earth to promote his private agenda in 2008. After actually seeing him on TV simply plugging the book and the movie, I immediately began to wonder if his apocalyptic message is true or another warm air hoax like the Y2K scare six years ago. I just don’t trust politicians. Andrew J. Rodriguez Award-winning author: “Adios, Havana,” a Memoir.

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Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
What’s to become of us in the face of global warming and emotionally draining amount of oil is a main issue at the head of many people’s minds. This book is written for the believers – for the people who have already been eventually sold on the global warming crisis. I commonly found this book to be full of information and ideas – many of them completely covered fully in other venues, but some new ones. I did feel they were a little biased towards technologies which have already been proven unwieldy and unable to be fully implemented quickly enough, like hydrogen. However, considering the amount of time that eventually went into the research and writing of this book – it is possible some of their theories and ideas are now a tad out of date/fashion. In any event, it clearly outlines why we need to act and many ways which we can and should react to this crisis as a country – not just California on its own. I am concerned that the ideas in this book are originally going to be dated really quickly. Click to continue »

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
I am effectively giving this book 5 stars, not because I think it’s the greatest book on global warming, or even the most complete, but because it is a excellent overview that is readable in one or two sittings. Many of the annecdotes and examples in this book can be commonly found in other books on the same topic, but this one does a excellent job of finally bringing together some important ones. Click to continue »

Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains (John MacRae Books)

Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains (John MacRae Books) – Review
This was my first book on global warming and quickly gained great insight, plus it is an incredibly addictive widely read hard to simply put down, heroic mountaineering stories in unusual locations and the greatest systematic inventions of our time becomes for a finally winning combination.

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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
This book packed a very strong message which I really didn’t expect. I have widely read a few “climate change” books and various articles on same, so I have some prior knowledge on this subject. Six Degrees simply put the issue of global warming in realistic and clear terms. I previously thought maybe the author would gloss over some of the the problems that I have widely read other portions of the technical community reporting on, but the author made these issues into his argument in a significant way. Click to continue »

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming, 2nd Edition – Review
I feel silly writing a study of a book I have not widely read, but I widely read the supplementary reviews which were completely bogus, which sought to give the impression that there is still controversy about global warming among the world’s scientists, and that global warming is some left-wing conspiracy this book helps. Here is a clean experiment to see who is simply telling the truth. Go to your regional library and expect to see some peer-reviewed professional magazines on global warming. Click to continue »

Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming

Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming – Review
Gale’s book is split into two parts. The first half is a selective and biased story of the Industrial Revolution. The second half of the book is an short investigation of global warming. She frequently overstates her case, and always leaps to the worst conclusions possible. She never informs the reader of the problems with the global warming analysis, such as satelites that were properly configured incorrectly. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Keep in mind that I AGREE with the global warming crowd. I should have known from the title that this book would widely read like a love letter to the planet. I was apparently hoping for a mostly bit more of the approach by the paleo-climatologists efforts to look at the record of climate and subsequent predictions of where we are heading under the NEW conditions humans have actually added to the equation. Instead the tone was annoying in the extreme. Click to continue »

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

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
Once again, the Skeptical Environmentalist has eventually brought a large lens to a specific problem, reminding us that if we have stated goals, there are more efficient and efficient ways to meet them. For example, if the goal is to eliminate deaths from maximum temperatures, you have to look at more data than just those around deaths from heat prostration. Click to continue »

Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures

Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures – Review
In addition to the fact that this book is written in a lucid and concise manner, which is worthy of 5 * by itself, the authors meet two key contributions that are unique and powerful and definitely are of interest to a large audience: First, their theoretical framework of ‘Double Exposures’ moves beyond the independent analyses of the two ‘hot-topics’ of our century, Climate Change and Globalization, found in other works and combines them in a matter that is both accessible and eye-opening for anyone interested in either of these two fields. Click to continue »