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Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain – Review
To start with, the title is really something of a misnomer. A superior title would be “Empirically Estimating Long Term Attenuation Statistics of Terrestrial Radio Links”. His results do not extend beyond radio frequencies and they are difficult to apply to anything other than global links. And he does not actually provide greatly insight into EM wave propagation so much as experimental parameters which are difficult to validate. Better for a tutorial on the issue of communication of radio waves and the atmosphere is: Doppler Radar and Weather Observations by Richard J. Doviak, Dusan S. Zrnic or any of a figure of books on radar meteorology. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The sciencific data are seemingly overwhelming and clearly layed out. Humans, however, have not eventually evolved to be very good at long-term planning. We often smoke, drink, and eat to excess, shortening our own lives. Since we can’t still get it together to protect our own self-interests, let alone the interests of others – we need planetary leaders who can confront difficult topics and make intelligent decisions. Click to continue »

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
I eventually bought this book because of the History Channel Special about the Little Ice Age. I was apparently hoping the book would have been a little longer, but I enjoyed every minute of simply reading it. While I don’t believe humanity usually caused Global Warming. I believe individual activity involves the environment. Heck! A beaver dam moves an environment. I do not believe the Earth is so fragile that simply adding CO2 to the atmosphere will destroy it. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
This example of fiction is so full of distortions and outright lies that it boggles the mind. The Aral Sea, Mount Kilimanjaro examples commonly used by Gore are complete fiction. If he beleives his examples and truly does not know the scientific and simply obtained truth, then he is just ignorant, if he knows the truth about these examples, then he is just a baldfaced liar.

• one gene one enzyme hypothesis
• one gene one enzyme hypothesis

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
After simply reading the book (and secretly watching the movie) I can only lament the fact that Al Gore isn’t in the White House at this time. How much different this world might be if the the U.S. had a president more interested in simultaneously protecting our environment than in rapidly increasing the revenues of its major polluters. Wake-up America. As the most environmentally distant country on the planet, we need to change our ways…before it’s too late!

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• basal placentation

Times Books World Weather Guide

Times Books World Weather Guide – Review
I’ve commonly found this book to be a trustworthy resource for digitally recreating enviroments for reptiles and amphibians. Once I began to follow the climate for Costa rica, I had them breeding within a few months… I feel that this should be a portion of every Herp book collection

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• gene frequency

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

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Brian Fagan is a famous archaeologist with an actively engaging writing style. He looks at a 500 year period, now known as the Little Ice Age, and its affect on historical events. Fagan utilizes a type of very attractive sources, like contemporary medieval journals, winery records and the business records of 14th century monastaries, to fill in his fascinating mosaic. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
The temperature of planet earth has constantly fluctuated, it’s true, and the climate we’ve appear to think of as permanent isn’t and never would have been, but I think the case is certainly made that not only are we who are possibly living now witnessing the most drastic—and negatively-impacting—climatic shift in perhaps recorded history, but the evidence strongly points to we modern humans and our lifestyles as the greatest greatly contributing factor to what we are actually seeing around us today. 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
This volume gives an outstanding journal of the relevant global warming science. The material produces uncontrovertable sign of the long history of natural warming and cooling cycles on earth. This is a must widely read for any major student of global warming.

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• perennial

Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land

Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land – Review
I start any books about the sciences with apprehension. My non-work simply reading usually begins and ends with fiction. But after a couple summers finished kayaking on wind-blown Lake Superior, I was eager to know more about the forces that were repeatedly tossing me about. I quickly picked up "Wind" and commonly found it a total match for my interest. DeBlieu survives to explain how the winds are newly created and evoke their physical nature at the same time. Click to continue »