books about: climate
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Climate
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!
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 ...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
, 2008
Required reading
Clear, insightful, and meaningful; a great sequel to "The World is Flat," this book should be required reading for informed and influential persons today. It is well researched with impressive and diverse references giving their varied perspectives on timely topics. ...
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
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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 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
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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2008
A must have for conservationists and general public (and cheap!!)
First the more practical stuff. I think the book is very cheap, because I found for a much higher price somewhere else, but also because of its size and print quality (I expected something smaller). And it arrived very fast (I got super-fast shipping for free). Now ...
The Birds in My Life
The Supreme Master Ching Hai
The Supreme Master Ching Hai Intl Assoc Publishing Co.,Ltd.
, 2007
...recites Sunny the parrot, one of Supreme Master Ching Hai's precocious birds that shares Her household. In this beautifully illustrated book, Master Ching Hai lovingly writes about each one of Her feathered friend's unique biography, complemented by life-like photographs and captions filled with amusing telepathic exchanges between Master ...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)
Christopher C. Horner
Regnery Publishing, Inc.
, 2007
Politicaly Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
Finest book published on the subject and a must read for anyone voteing this November!!!!!!
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
Brian M. Fagan
Basic Books
, 2001
Vividly Written and Extremely Valuable History
The author of this book is not an environmental determinist, but he makes a plea for us to observe weather as best we can, not only in our time, but in history, and study its interplay with human social, political, artistic, and military activity. He speaks of ice ...
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