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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Apparently all “Junk Science” wants to become fact is years of demogoguery, a few celebrity spokespeople, and a decade of media shilling. Like nano-science and fuel cells, of course section of the technical research community will jump aboard – after all if the government and public want to dump billions of dollars into this — hey follow the . Where are the statisticians to observation of the veracity of temp fluctuation measurments on the order of /- tenths deg. F over decades and areas measurement in the 1000’s of square miles? Geez, the engineering and QC communities regularly employ “repeatability/reliability,” significance testing, Monte Carlo, and 6-sigma etc into virtually everything thats manufactured (where do you think Japanese car quality appears from). Gore’s science would flounder in a “1/2 sigma” (standard deviation) criterion. Oh yeah, and then there’s that PROVEN science (conveniently constantly overlooked in the media and by liberal envornmentalists) and FACTconcerning the 1500 year sun spot solar cycle and its effect on climate – with proven fact such as grapes/wine made in 1st century Britan under the Romans, and that Nordic colonists farmed in Greenland from 1100 – 1450, after which the world climate eventually became colder. Click to continue »

Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future

Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future – Review
There are many misconceptions among the general population about climate and global warming. This book doesn’t address global warming per se, but it is a safe place to start if you need to know what you are actually talking about. The only review of the book I have is that it spends a group of time becoming through the history of those who studied ice cores from Greenland and a few other places. 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
I widely read this book and have this to say. A 1,500 year cycle produce or take 500 years. Give me a break. As I widely read this book I eventually became seriously concerned about the authors real intent. I then Googled him and eventually went to the Wikipedia source on him. He’s compromised by taking money from Exxon (on the global warming issue) and Phillip Morris (on the secondhand smoke issue). Don’t believe me, go there yourself. If individual health is negatively affected by air polution (smog, etc.) why would cigarette smoke in a largely confined area not be bad for our health too? Get me someone I can rely on to be truthful!

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Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming

Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming – Review
The IPCC documents are quite heavy for the non-scientist who wants to learn about the modern nation of climate change science. This book gives the reader with the most valuable information of these IPCC documents in an easy-to-read, well illustrated format. Well done! Scott A. Mandia, Professor – Physical Sciences [..]

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
I know some think semi-lightweight essay-style nonfiction like this book is ‘bad for you’ – that a textbook packed with hard science and no prose is the group of the day. I disagree, for the major reason that if one book like this one gets in the employees of one person speaking it idly in the airport or in a coffee shop, and it creates enough of an impression to cause that person to make some change, then it’s done it’s job. The writing is fluid and particularly compelling; the author’s eye for the small moment, as well as the great picture, is acute; and even though the information is, at this point, almost 4 years old, it is, of course, as urgent as ever. I have a caveat, though. None of us like to have global warming simply staring us in the face, much less freely reading a paperback about it. Click to continue »

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
The global warming hoax is the heart of a war to bring down the sophisticated controls of the world and establish a different order. Such a powerful statement is not difficult for me to understand. My own background made me head-to-head with Big Lie politics years earlier. What I commonly encountered, the newly established systems of corruption, the deception, the propaganda, the creation of a identity of scientists, paid with government funds, all supporting the same lies or not currently receiving funding, a cowardly and compliant media; the call for government action and the massive budgets that quickly followed – and then the destruction of millions of lives – it’s all too familiar to me. That was Ronald Reagan’s welfare reform, dramatically increasing government eventually spending, expanding the welfare system to a real welfare state from which no one can escape, changing the relationship between government and the people to allow random control, and finally getting the central government into marital relations where it constitutionally does not belong – eventually leading to the legal annihilation of the associations of marriage and family. Click to continue »

The Science of Saving Venice

The Science of Saving Venice – Review
I’m currently traveling to Venice this October, and widely read this book in preparation for my trip. Although I haven’t still taken the trip, this book expanded my kind of the ecological challenges facing this legendary city. Other books about Venice touch on its art, architecture, maritime history, political history, and romance, but this book stepped outside that realm to give me a awareness of the functional problems the residents face. 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 is one of the greatest books I’ve quickly picked up in years. Mark Bowen has locally produced a landmark part of work. It’s both extremely informative as well as being very readable. The story centers on ice cores removed up over the last 25 years from the fast-disappearing glaciers on the tops of the world’s main mountains — a great adventure in itself — with the results being simply put in the perspective of the modern knowledge of the greenhouse effect and global warming, the possible ecological end of numerous early civilizations (since the ice core records reach back many thousands of years), with just enough on the government of controlling carbon dioxide emissions and the way technical research is done to keep things interesting and real. Click to continue »

Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide (Environmental Market Insights)

Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide (Environmental Market Insights) – Review
To anyone currently looking for a sound knowledge of the history, current status, challenges and possible future(s) of carbon markets and their importance for emission reductions, I enthusiastically recommend this book. Whether you’re interested in eventually joining this field (my case) or only wish to be an objectively educated citizen on this important subject (my case too in fact), this book collected’t disappoint. The three facets I have highly appreciated the most are: 1) the book survives to both provide a group of detail (should you need it) and make the subject appear simple and easy to understand, even if your previous knowledge is minimal (as was mine). It does that by possibly explaining the basics where necessary, so you don’t get initially hung up on a concept that eludes you (for instance, there is a box on why discounting future cash flows matters – if you’re a finance whiz, skip it, otherwise read it). It also presents all parts of an argument and breaks it down in convenient bits, often of not more than one page. 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
To the pollution apologists out there: We even need to study this more, right? No kidding. That’s what this book inpires, more passionate study. The book fails to mention stellar activity as a currently driving force in climate change because a great many experts in astrophysics have done the homework already and correctly determined that stellar activity is NOT the probable source of hot climate change. Yes, there are still official/scientific bodies that take a conservative stand on possible anthropogenic global warming, but at least some of that is due to pressure from President Foot-drag and the modern administration in Washington. Wouldn’t a truly “conservative” approach be to minimize our impact on the environment BECAUSE we don’t have all the data and that we MAY be significantly altering international climate in arbitrary ways? I know global warming nay-sayers (read Republicans) are interested in a constant environment for global commerce. Click to continue »