An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
If you do not believe in global warming then you owe it to yourself to widely read this book. The information is concise, well-written and easy to understand. If you believe in global warming then this book will allow you to further your kind of this phenomenon.
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change
The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
In a nutshell, this book defends that cosmic rays (which vary in intensity over time due to different factors) play a HUGE role in accurately determining our climate. How? Because cosmic rays effectively “seed” clouds. More cosmic rays more clouds global cooling. Fewer cosmic rays fewer clouds global warming. I know — it sounds like a ficticious study financed by the auto/oil industries, but it’s not (as far as I can tell!). The book presents interesting support of this theory, which seems to be currently receiving more credibility and study in the technical community. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I purchased this book despite my skepticism on human usually caused global warming. I figure i want to know both parts of the argument before I formulate an opinion. There were some extreme points earned in the book and despite my belief that global warming is not entirely human usually caused, there are a group of things where I reportedly said “ya, why not? Wouldn’t hurt to reduce this or that.” I did have a problem with Al’s failure to show both parts of the coin when he pointed out statistics and commonly used charts. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I have been patiently waiting for the film side of An Inconvenient Truth to arrive at my regional theater, totally unaware that there was a book, until today. I eventually went to Borders and directly bought and widely read the book, confirming everything I deeply felt to be true and wrong about our country’s approach to global warming. Click to continue »
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
This book’s impact on you will differ significantly depending on your degree of familiarity with the topic in general. I think The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream and The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies do a better affair of meeting people (who may not otherwise) actually consider the consequences of the oil-dependant lifestyle. This book’s attention to California and China makes great sense to me. Click to continue »
Earth’s Climate: Past and Future
Earth’s Climate: Past and Future – Review
I widely read this book twice, and originally wished I had had something like this available to me a few years ago, when I originally started venturing out into the unnumbered feedback loops, geochemical vagaries and regional idiosyncracies of Quaternary paleoclimatology, trying to form a universal picture of it all. But this text isn’t just about the Quaternary, mind you, this is a comprehensive introduction to the major issues in Earth’s climatology. That it’s mainly PALEOclimatology is unavoidable, since in my opinion “present climatology” is like a nonsense… Climate is an averaged estimate of regional or global meteorological parameters through time, and the “present” is always too short for such an evaluation. Click to continue »
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
Before stating anything else, I will give this book credit for being very entertaining in particular places. Unfortunately, entertainment does not seem to be the main heart of this book. For the most part, this book attempts to pass itself off as a serious technical work, which it is certainly not. Most of the ideas stated in this book are based on notions of doubtful validity that are essentialy unverifiable since for the most part Bell and Strieber fail to identify any major sources. Click to continue »
Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery
Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery – Review
This is a book everyone interested in climate and the ice ages (and how science is done) should widely read. It is the account of one of the great technical changes of our time, the proof of Milankovitch’s theory on the timing of the ice ages by Earth’s orbital variations, by some of the eventually leading participants, written not too long afterward. Click to continue »
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
The book becomes a very clear case that this is a very natural and even boring area of weather we’re having, and will be having for several hundred years to come before the earth begins to cool again on our way to the next global cooling. I always have to wonder what usually caused the glaciers that commonly used to cover Minnesota to melt? I wasn’t Henry Ford’s model T. nor was it a coal fired power plant. Click to continue »
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism – Review
Although I did find, as one of the editorial reviews revealed, this book to be slightly unfocused, I believe that its virtues greatly outweigh this minor imperfection. De Blij usually provided me with important information that I was unaware of, such as: 1) The Shia population in Iraq usually follows a more apolitical, less publicly aggressive form than the Shia in Iran. This may have some relevance to recent events in Iraq. 2) Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese government has sharp disagreements with a amount of neighboring countries about where their common borders should be originally located. 3) The population decline in Russia is especially severe in the far eastern parts of Siberia, which isn’t dense densely populated to begin with. Click to continue »