For an earth scientist, the IPCC consensus that climate change is dominantly caused by CO2 is close to a myth, a conviction close to a religion based on very little proof.
Category: Book Review
Politics & Climate Change: A History
The review also reminds us of the price paid by those who stood for scientific integrity: Willie Soon, Scott Pruitt, Judith Curry, David Legates, John Christy, Robert Balling, Roger Pielke…
Green Rotten Apples
If you like books like Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, books by Jon Pepper or Bjørn Lomborg, this may be something for you. If you like music, or even metal/rock,…
Book Review: The Maverick Scientist by Forrest Mims III
Mims recounts his lifelong passion for experimentation, from early childhood tinkering to groundbreaking research in atmospheric science. His journey includes designing altimeters for model rockets, inventing devices that have been…
The Crisis of Unreliable Science: A Pharmacologist’s Call for Radical Reform
In the end, Szabo’s message is clear: science is drowning in waste and fakery, and it’s time to stop pretending otherwise. His solutions may not be perfect, but they’re a…
Hostile Climate
Novels that take a skeptical view of climate alarm have become an endangered species since Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear” was published 20 years ago. Most fiction that touches on…
Climate Skeptics and Fiction
There’s a real market for dystopian literature. The Alarmists have had great success in this arena.
A Review of Missy’s Twitch and the Scourge of Climatosis
What’s especially notable about the book is that it’s the first fictional novel, movie, or TV show in many years to portray climate change as something other than a coming…
New Book—Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure
Green Breakdown is a complete discussion of all facets of the proposed renewable transition, including power plants, home appliances, electric vehicles, ships, aircraft, heavy industry, carbon capture and storage, and…
Book Review: Polar Bear Evolution: A Model for How New Species Arise
Bottom Line: I liked this book – it made me think, re-think and think again. It made me do the type of intellectual work that refreshes the mind and brings…
BOOK REVIEW: Climate Uncertainty and Risk – Rethinking Our Response
This is one book that is far different, with a difference that is important. It has been written by a real climate scientist.
Alan Longhurst’s “Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science”
Unless you have already spent a lifetime studying the complex, complicated and chaotic subjects that comprise climate science, you stand to learn more from this book than from any other…
Book Review: A Tale of Two Climates
“A Tale of Two Climates” is suitable for use as a “coffee table book”. Leave it around for visitors to pick up and leaf through…almost every page has a graphic…
Book Review: Winter Games by Daniel Church
The new novel by Daniel Church, Winter Games, opens with a scene at the beach, surfing the big waves, which is dangerous enough in the best of times, but can…
BOOK REVIEW: The Unpopular Truth about Electricity and the Future of Energy
“Their new book, The Unpopular Truth about Electricity and the Future of Energy, will give you the information you need to talk about this topic with a sense of authority…
Cli-Fi: The Net Zero Sub-Genre
Two excellent books to read during the winter solstice doldrums or while traveling over the holidays. Not to mention a great last minute Xmas gift.
Book Review: Climate of the Past, Present and Future — A Scientific Debate
“What wasn’t clear at all was the evidence that the carbon dioxide was causing the warming. Clearly the warming had started long before the fast increase in carbon dioxide.”
Human Impacts on Weather and Climate: A Book Review
I guarantee that much of what you will read in this book will surprise you and much more will enlighten and educate you.
New Feature: Book Review Page
Just like the sortable Video page we rolled out three weeks ago, we have rolled out a a book review page.
Epstein’s ‘Fossil Future’
“Epstein focuses on the ‘big picture’ facts of how fossil fuels are helping the world’s populations to live longer, better, safer lives, while managing the side-effects of increasing CO2 emissions.”
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