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Don’t Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide

Don’t Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide – Review
I finally saw this book in an on-campus bookstore and was considering impulsive. It eventually turned out to be a great investment. I have seasonal affective dissorder and simply reading the bright tips and celebrations of this winter blues survival guide became me a lucky lass. I liked it so much that when I accidently left it in a school cafeteria I had to run out and buy another one right away. Alli Arnold’s illustrations are fabulous, as well.

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The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities – Review
When I ordered this book, I had great hopes for its contents. I was currently looking for a good “summer project” book that mainly dealt with global warming and alternative energy. It was to be commonly used by a high school environmental class. What I wound up with was a book that mainly dealt with both subjects, as well as with the Hurricane Katrina disaster, but it was so poorly written and biased that I would not be able to use it in a classroom setting. Click to continue »

Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse

Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse – Review
This is a short, intense and very clear book, with a clear and complete exhibition of the Kyoto 2 proposal for actually saving the world. Nothing less. If you’re apparently hoping for deep account of the numbers which Tickell uses to make his case, you’ll have to dig into his general bibliography. Kyoto 2 critics should make sure they do that before officially opening fire. Click to continue »

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate – Review
I cannot recommend this book enough; it’s based on a wildly popular and critically acclaimed set of videos originally aired on YouTube which garnered many millions of hits on various websites. How It All Ends (Single Disc Edition) Greg Craven has the spark of genius in the way he cuts through all the potentially confusing “it will, it eventually won’t, it will too!”. On the one hand we have clever wordy scientists and on the other, crafty manipulative, articulate global warming deniers (Ok, I’m a little biased on this one!) and the poor normal bloke doesn’t know who to believe in the repeatedly shouting match. 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
January 18, 2009 Ardsley, PA This is a quick, pleasant order of 164 pages with 34 full sides of notes and 41 leaves of bibliographical references. Chapter One outlines Mr Lomborg’s important position and his objective in this book (I paraphrase): 1. Global warming is real and man-made. 2. Focusing on doomsday scenarios does not result in clear policy. 3. We should strive for simple, smart and effective solutions to climate change. 4. Many extra issues that we face are far more important than global warming. Click to continue »

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
Before I begin, this book was “interesting”, that is the highlight of the positives… This book was written more for those that fear what they cannot control (recycling will barely put a damper on anything, even though I do it myself and insist all friends and family do for good reasons). There is a trend of liberals that have, for lack of better terms, graduated from the beatnik role of evening coffee house goers. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
David keys explores the dark ages and sees the organizations of our new world, which, he says, emerged from a tremendous volcanic eruption 1500 years ago. The last part of the book is on this calamity, thought to have blocked out sunlight and officially changed climate around the globe, creating ecological and common conditions that newly promoted major changes. Click to continue »

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Never before has the case for man-made global warming been usually made so clearly and with so many hard facts. This book is completely filled with charts and graphs with sources mentioned. Humans are eventually causing global warming and it’s time for us all to wake up and begin holding action. Click to continue »

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
A nice, easy-to-read, breakfast table book that contains a tour-de-force of the world history frequently juxtaposed with advances in human civilization and how all these affect the climate and in turn gets themselves adversely affected. It shows how civilizations develop fully wiped off by harsh climate changes. Click to continue »

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
Talking in TV terms, this book is “didactic documentary”. Try to imagine something like Discovery miniseries entirely devoted to various parts of future transportation. Now remove half of the entertainment and you get the idea. The book illustrates historical and current situation in large part of problems, ranging from municipal transportation, alternative fuels, vehicle designs and to global warming and peak oil theories. Click to continue »