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Comment on A Kids’ Guide to Climate Change & Global Warming: How to Take Action! by Midwest Book Review

Midwest Book Review — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:26:56 +0000

“A Kids’ Guide to Climate Change and Global Warming” is a recent workbook for kids in grade 6 and up in the How To Take Action! series. It contains a global warming map, carbon footprints explanation, water audits, youth summits, alternative energies, cool foods, green comics and much more to empower kids to take action to reduce or end global warming. Providing step by step suggestions for effective activities, “A Kids’ Guide to Climate Change and global Warming” is a fine educational tool for young student environmental activists.

Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Mrs. Wilson

Mrs. Wilson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:50:03 +0000

This book should be required reading for everyone on the planet who can read. While obviously a topic that some disagree with, the bottom line is that we’re doing way too much to harm the environment and to empower big business. Let’s all try to change a few of the things we’re doing to contribute to waste, pollution, etc. This should not be a political issue. However, I would have never picked up the book, read it, and become passionate about the subject had it NOT been written by this famous author. Please, folks, keep an open mind.
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on What is Science? From Global Warming to Evolution by moonbarnacle

moonbarnacle — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:30:56 +0000

awe in the distance
i hope i arrive

Comment on What is Science? From Global Warming to Evolution by zhouji2006

zhouji2006 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:52:54 +0000

great talk. only 237 views?

Comment on An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Coal Cracker

Coal Cracker — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:08:21 +0000

As a former climate scientist I was one of the global warming naysayers. However, the wealth of new scientific information that has arisen in the past 15 years has convinced myself and many others that humanity is on the verge of a major climate catastrophe if action is not taken. Al Gore does an excellent job of distilling the science into what matters to the general public. He does for global warming what Stephen Hawking did for physics by making the concepts and data accessable and understandable to everyone. I am a political moderate, but I can’t help but wonder how much better off this country would have been if this intellectually curious and thoughtful gentleman would have been our President.
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on What is Science? From Global Warming to Evolution by becomepostal

becomepostal — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:58:18 +0000

Having a good subject is not enough. You must structure your speech and learn to speak.

Comment on What is Science? From Global Warming to Evolution by envyshoes

envyshoes — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:06:09 +0000

@becomepostal I take it you didn’t like his manner of speaking?

Comment on What is Science? From Global Warming to Evolution by becomepostal

becomepostal — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:28:18 +0000

@envyshoes It’s quite boring, because he almost always speaks at the same rate and tone. Furthermore, the structure is not clearly articulated, neither by him, neither by the written text which is hopelessly still and even distracts us from hearing (powerpoint effect).
I understand he was quite nervous about the speech and can’t blame him for that, but there are a lot of minor improvements that could have been brought before the presentation.
Overall it looks like it is a good half-baked cookie.

Comment on An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Robert Derenthal

Robert Derenthal — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:51:23 +0000

I am a layman who loves to read books about science. To me politics has no business mucking around in science. I simply want to know what research is being done in a field, and what the general scientific consensus is about a given topic.

Al Gore's book is an excellent starting point for those who want to learn some of the basics of global warming, but are reluctant to leap into a more academic book on the subject. Although I have read several books on this topic I was interested to see what Al Gore had to say about it. When I got my copy my first reaction was "Oh no, this is just a simple minded picture book." I was mistaken. Pictures are worth a thousand words. We are presented with photos of glaciers taken now, and in the past. The change is startling. Or the satellite photos of Lake Chad, which used to be the size of Lake Erie, but has almost totally dried up in just 40 years.. He tells us about those cute penguins we saw in the movie "March of the Penguins": 70% of them are now gone. They can't find enough hard ice to raise their offspring. The statistics he presents in many graphs are quite frightening. Sample: in the 1950s there were about 10 floods in the U.S.; In the 1990s there were close to 200.

Some readers who want to learn about global warming, but who are not fans of Mr. Gore might tire of the several biographical segments added to the book. Whatever your feelings are about him, you have to admire the amount of traveling he did to seek out answers. He's gone through all the continents - traveled up the Amazon, been to both Antarctica and the North Pole (both on top of it, and under it in a submarine).

Mind you, this book will not take you a long distance into the topic. It is an introduction, and if the material presented intrigues you, then you should take the next step and read some more books on the subject such as:

The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer Weart (a history of global warming research)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert (easy reading)
Red Sky At Morning by James Speth (how do we address the problem)
Is The Temperature Rising, by George Philander (a little more technical)
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery (easy reading)
Climate Change by William Burroughs (quite technical)
The Ice Chronicles by Paul Mayewski (about the ice cores that tell us about past climate)
High Tide by Mark Lynas (how global warming is already affecting people)
The Long Summer by Brian Fagan (climate change through the history of civilization)
Atmosphere, Climate and Change by Thomas Graedel (somewhat technical but accessible) Rating: 5 / 5

Comment on What is Science? From Global Warming to Evolution by becomepostal

becomepostal — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:37:43 +0000

@envyshoes At first I didn’t like his manner of speaking, specially in the beginning when he utterly displays a lack of knowledge about history and claims vague and general ideas about the medial vision of the world, which he did with a quite snob manner.
After that first stage, I liked his manner of speaking because he has a good pronunciation, which makes it message clear for everyone. That’s a very good thing. Indeed.