books about: climate

books about: climate

books:

Climate

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Bjorn Lomborg

Vintage, 2008

Government is the solution !
With the financial system collapsing due to deregulation, greed and irrational hubris, this short book is the latest fad for all who believe government is a problem, not the solution. Granted, Lomberg admits, "humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric ...

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Important read
Great job by Tom Friedman. This book brings the 'climate change' problem to a wider audience and explains how it's not a left/right political issue, but a national and even global issue. Friedman, always the sober optimist, sees a big problem but a bigger ...

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Van Jones

HarperOne, 2008

Perfect Timing!
The Green Collar Economy, How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, by Van Jones, could not be more timely. As our economy (and perhaps the world economy) enters a period called stagflation--meaning, a stagnant economy coupled with inflation--Jones offers a ...

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn

W. W. Norton, 2008

A rebuttal to flat-earthers.
I recommend this book to those people who are in any way swayed by economic arguments as to the cost of tackling climate change. As with the advent of any new technological change from the spinning loom on; there are entrenched interests who will fight tooth and nail ...

SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea

John Lofty Wiseman

Collins, 2004

Long book, short review.
I dont wanna write a book explaining this thing, but, even if youre just a part time backpacker, hiker or camper, this is a book you want to invest in. Lots of good information on lots of areas in the world. There is some stuff in here that should be common knowledge, ...

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition

S. Fred Singer, Dennis T. Avery

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008

G;obal WArming
I cannot yet rate this, but since I must give a rating, will give it a 5 as I do believe I will find I agree with the materials presented. I have had no time to even scan it.

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided ...

Roy Spencer

Encounter Books, 2008

Credibility
Considering that he has a PhD and has been working with NASA for a long time, the author has high credentials, unlike Mr. Gore. He explains science is still in it's primitive state, that scientists have only scratched the surface. Therefore it is highly unlikely that ...

The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political ...

Lawrence Solomon

Richard Vigilante Books, 2008

Man made global warming fails the scientific test
This book is written by a Canadian Environmental Activist who wanted to know why leading scientists kept denying man-made global warming so he interview a number of them for his column. In every case, they have good solid reasons why the IPCC ignores the lack of ...

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ...

Grove Press, 2006

The Long Emergency
An excellent argument that we are at or approaching the peak oil production plateau, and speculates on the drastic future we may expect. Well done. Provokes a lot of thought about how one should adapt to eventually intolerable circumstances!

Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front

Sharon Astyk

New Society Publishers, 2008

Turning Less into More
The secondary title of this book--One Woman's Solutions to Finding Abundance for Your Family while Coming to Terms with Peak Oil, Climate Change and Hard Times--pretty much tells the story. This is not just another of those doom-and-gloom, ...

Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming

Michael E. Mann, Lee R. Kump

DK ADULT, 2008

If you only read one book on climate change, this is the one!
If you're like me, you've longed for a user-friendly book to both clarify your own thoughts about global warming and to recommend to those acquaintances, friends, relatives, and colleagues who are either indifferent to climate change or think it's a bunch of ...

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

Al Gore

Rodale Books, 2006

This is a book that every American should read!
Although i was well aware of global warming, the scientific evidence and the real statistics of the global warming from this book definitely raised my awareness even more. I mainly bought this book because i am very interested from saving the earth from the global ...

A Dangerous Climate: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain (St. Germain)

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Tor Books, 2008

One of the best in the series to date
*A Dangerous Climate* is the twentieth novel centering on Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's benign vampire hero, Count Ferenz Ragoczy Saint-Germain. I've been a fan of Yarbro's Count for thirty years, and this is one of my favorite of the novels so far. The foundation of ...

Blue Planet in Green Shackles

Vaclav Klaus

Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2007

Impeccable Logic and Compelling Insights from Pres. Klaus
A thought-provoking, reasoned approach to the hysteria that is the global warming movement. Pres. Klaus approaches the questions about and proposed solutions to global warming with sound economic principles and common sense rather than intellectually vacuous rhetoric ...

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Mark Lynas

National Geographic, 2008

A gripping and scary look into our climatic future
This book is an excellent summary of current knowledge of global warming. The future looks frightening. I've decided to do my part by cutting back on driving and getting solar panels.