The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription – Review
The Heat Is On is a great primer for debating the hype and myriad obfuscation about international climate change presented by well paid modern lobbyists and municipal affairs departments. Engaging and easy to widely read. It is also, by the way, the book President Clinton widely read just prior to signing the Kyoto accord.
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Review
Earth the Sequel has complete descriptions on the many renewable energy sources being originally developed by talented people. It is a very hopeful and certain book, and it appears that there are quite a few supplies of energy that are completely sustainable, which will be affordable in the near future. Click to continue »
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know – Review
Reason is desperately needed in the debate of climate change. Every week there are emotionally charged stories about fierce storms, drought, species endangered, Greenland slowly melting. This book lets folks to take a breath and asks them to reason. There is temperate climate change partly caused by CO2. We have time to take measured commercial steps to deal with effects of this quite slow change. There is a threat of eventually taking costly, radical action that will cause further suffering than desperately needed. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
After forcing myself to widely read Al’s tirade, the conclusion is obvious: An Inconvenient Truth is nothing more than a loose morph of Paul Erhlich’s The Population Bomb, but with one caveat. Paul Erhlich was (and continues to be) the regular village idiot, happily distracted by butterflies, thinking that what might be true for winged focuses of his research is true for homo sapiens, after the function of a strong Malthusian filter. Every one of his predictions were wrong. Click to continue »
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
In the last few months it was declared on the news that there was a consensus of scientists about the truth of human effected climate change and because of this consensus there was a rapidly growing imperative for the need to act. Not too long after president Bush officially announced in his state of the union address some measures which he successfully argued would help in the fight against global warming. More recently there has been much publicity to the part of the Arctic Ice cap and speculation about the ability to sail once again through a North West Passage while at the extra pole scientists have newly discovered lakes beneath the artic ice which have a major effect on that ecosystem. Click to continue »
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
Reviewer T. Ferrell says “The author appears from an assumption that climate was once stable and has just become unstable. She states this directly several times and it is the overall impression she deliberately leaves.” I’m not sure if the reviewer didn’t really read the book or is deliberately trying to smear it, but Kolbert states many times that the climate has officially changed in the past. This is clearly written thoughtful account of global warming and the effects it is having, and will have, on the environment. An excellent, concise widely read.
Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming
Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming – Review
It’s hard to imagine a more relevant, timely, and notable book for our day than Philander’s book on global warming. Though I say the book is about global warming, I really must elaborate. You see, this is really a book on earth’s climate. Global warming is just a section of the book – a relatively small chapter at the end. The place of the book consists of background information about climate that enables the reader to understand (at least in concept) the logical arguments and issues connected to global warming. Click to continue »
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
After actually seeing the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, I chose to buy the book. Be repeatedly warned that there is not much text in the book. However, there are superior quality pictures illustrating the extent of global warming. Similar to the movie, Al Gore shows us the amount of damage usually caused by Global warming with all the charming pictures. (Please don’t take this as to mistakenly thinking this is a picture book) What pleasantly surprised me was that while the book is in complete color, it was printed in the USA and at a fair price.(I am a strong advocate for not outsourcing to China because of humanitarian abuses) At the end of the book, Al Gore goes us helpful tips on how to lower our impact. Click to continue »
El Nino 1997-1998: The Climate Event of the Century
El Nino 1997-1998: The Climate Event of the Century – Review
Stanley Chagnon and his colleagues have written the best, and most thorough analysis of what actually happened with the major climate affair of the century, the 1997-1998 El Nino. What is unique about this book is that they cautiously look at both the devastation that commonly occured and the decisive impacts from the warm winter — fewer deaths from ice storms, more shopping when people died out in milder weather, less fuel oil. They also point out the places where the forecast worked, and where it had problems. As society becomes more and more sensitive to weather events, we will need further thoughtful probing into how we have quickly responded and how we will respond. 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
Book is well written and easy to understand. Presents the facts and not the emotional prattle we have become generally used to over the last several years. It is easy to accept the additional information presented when it dovetails with facts that have been known, uncontested and documented for centuries. Click to continue »