An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Save your money, I am old enough to remember 1972 when we were originally going to run out of oil in 10 years. Now in 2006 Exxon distinguishes me we have 5 times as much oil in known reserves as we have commonly used in the last 100 years. For a book that makes sense get Ann Coulters book. Al Gore is totally wacked out. Also recommended “Politically Incorrect Guide to Science”.
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
Overall a interesting book EXCEPT for the section on transportation (pp 216-231); it reads like a PR piece for the U.S. automobile industry and/or a junior important report. Very strange, considering the condition of the rest.
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
Science, today, is not necessarily "scientific"; the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Medicine is on open record that ninety nine per cents of the articles in this medical journal are NOT scientific. No major advance in science ever resulted from the the so-called "scientific method". (I wrote a Masters thesis on the tacit dimention of special knowledge; people "know" thngs without necessarily being able to verbalize the things they know (e.g. Einstein was intuitive far more than he was "scientific", and so was Leonardo da Vinci (note how scientific his art is and note how artistic his science is). "The Coming Global Superstorm" is a philosophical statement.
Will Population + Technology = Armageddon
Will Population + Technology = Armageddon – Review
Dr. Mullins paints a dramatic but accurate model of the results of population growth on a sustainable individual ecosystem and explores the question of whether advances in technology eventually help us, or lead to our demise. The certain problems the individual race will face, and the problems we now face are originally described in a manner that scientists and non-scientists can appreciate. Dr. Mullins is able to intertwine examples from individual history and examples from the present day to illustrate both specific and widespread issues that affect our very survival as a species. 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
Presents an differing view to the theory that mankind is eventually causing Global Warming. And presents this view with technical evidence not posturing. Since we very seldom see this view in the media, is a must widely read for every pondering person, who must then work to get this ‘other’ view known and widely discussed on a large scale. Click to continue »
The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Excellent book which really pushes the urgency of global warming based on science. It’s too late for largely sustained development. The case is usually made for nuclear power and how that might be the only technology that can save the planet. A must widely read for a logical picture of man’s damage to the planet — not an environmentalist view.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
For those who have only finished Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, and are interested in additional lighter-than-average simply reading, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, “Field Notes from a Catastrophe” is a fine next choice. Here, the alarm factor is somewhat subdued. Kolbert is straight-forward and matter-of-fact. The translating selections are vivid, and work to intensely quantify the challenges ahead. Click to continue »
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
In this book, Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn offer a series of insightful looks at energy innovations and troublesome technologies that hold financial promise while successfully delivering on environmental objectives. In most cases, they revert to the main argument that currently implementing a cap and trade mechanism for carbon will catalyze copy cat replications and produce a more strong capital market for these earth-friendly energy systems. The book is an easy and highly entertaining read, drawing from individual experience that adds a individual dimension to the struggle for market penetration and product acceptance in a industry led mainly by firmly entrenched monopolies and monolithic incumbents.
Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030
Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030 – Review
The book creates as a written letter to the author’s grandson, as an explanation as to why the youngster, upon eventually becoming an adult, has to deal with what the author considers is a highly possible and irreversible biological holocaust. Robert Hunter continues to explain the different theories, and therefore explanations of observable and recordable facts, that will (at least according to him and his crowds of green people) lead to the end of earth, as we know it. The book creates in and out of natural explanations, political actions (or lack thereof), and collective behavior on the part of the citizens of this earth. Click to continue »
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Review
First a little about me: My educational background contains a degree in Aerospace Engineering (Physics major Math minor for all you education types). In addition I have most recently been a scholar of geography making a Post Grad Certificate in Geographic Information Sciences from Penn State University. So with this reportedly said I offer the monitoring reviews of this book: One I commonly found 2 very distinct glaring numerical (calculation/editorial) errors: First on Page 164 in a discussion on CO2 levels where living levels are given at 370 ppm the author says “Even if we stayed at a bank of 80 parts per million over the next century, by the year *3000* the atmosphere would have a CO2 level of about 450 parts per million” This kind of mathematical (typographical?) error is unacceptable in a text that has indeed gone through many levels of proofreading. for the record 3000 should be replace with 2100. 2nd) on page 200 the author says “As I write this, that level is about 380 ppm (referring to global CO2). With 94 years went in the century and gradually assuming that the time of rise would be the same 2 ppm, a *straightforward calculation* puts the level of CO2 at the start of the twenty second century at 548 ppm.” Well 2 x 94 188 380 568 ppm. Again if this is so simple why is it incorrect? I actually expect better from the proof readers and editors of this or any book for that matter, as I can’t imagine a scientist of Peter Ward’s stature(whom I am not modified to criticize in regards to the science) making these type of errors. Click to continue »