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Even though he's a programmer for Virtual Vision Network, Adam Porter never wonders how it all works. He knows that virtual vision offers subscribers a variety of premium channels with which to view the world. There's Cartoon Vision for family fun, Chapel Vision for meditation, Ultramodern and Shangrila for variety. And his personal favorite, Frontier Vision, where he and his virtual dog, Bo, defend the homestead from bands of desperados. But going off-line always brings a return to normal, everyday life until a head injury puts his receiver on the fritz, revealing a post-apocalyptic world that Adam has never seen before. Adam is forced to question what is real and what is an illusion. With Network cops dogging his every move, Adam goes on the run and stumbles upon the Actual Reality Underground where he joins a band of Eco-guerrillas in a plan to blow up the virtual vision transmitters and force the population back to the actual reality they don't even know exists. ... Read more

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Fun, fun...fun
I read, I have a rich fantasy life, I sorta like TV, I, blushing...play Second Life, and yeh, I also have a 'real' life, I think. And, now, I'm a bit more conscious of just how real "real" is!

The authors put together a believable, alternate reality, disturbingly believable, in fact. Posing challenging questions about perception and reality, offering an engaging plot and attractive characters they trot readers through adventures and ponderings and,in the process, describe a future that it absolutely impossible--I hope...

A Real Fiction Thriller
This fascinating and compelling story immediately pulls you into a fictional world that you can surprisingly relate to and yet hope will only live within your imagination. The authors use today's technology and its possible future application to create a seemingly ideal environment that frighteningly unwinds before your eyes. You identify with characters that seem eerily familiar as they struggle to alter a future that you also fear.

When you have finished this book, don't expect to be done with the story. Is the story of our civilization the prequel to Reality Crash? Is the brave new world of Reality Crash the next new button on your remote control?

This is a very good read and one that you are not soon to forget.

A Real Fiction Thriller
This fascinating and compelling story immediately pulls you into a fictional world that you can surprisingly relate to and yet hope will only live within your imagination. The authors use today's technology and its possible future application to create a seemingly ideal environment that frighteningly unwinds before your eyes. You identify with characters that seem eerily familiar as they struggle to alter a future that you also fear.

When you have finished this book, don't expect to be done with the story. Is the story of our civilization the prequel to Reality Crash? Is the brave new world of Reality Crash the next new button on your remote control?

This is a very good read and one that you are not soon to forget.
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Global Warming takes one of the hot-button issues of our time and surveys it in historical context, creating an intellectual portrait of the multi-century shifts in thinking that have led to gradual acceptance of the concept. The book summarizes pertinent aspects of geology, earth science, and climate science in easy-to-read terms. It then frames this background in terms of cultural and social shifts, including the Industrial Revolution, conspicuous consumption, and modern environmentalism. In addition, a study of the ebb and flow of cultural and political reception relates the issue to religious and social ideas.

The information presented here will enable the reader to understand the scientific case stating that human activity has caused an unprecedented warming in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Technical and political objections to this thesis are also covered, so that readers may form their own opinions on this critical subject.

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Excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels-a problem which as already resulted in increased natural catastrophes: storms, floods, droughts, and fire. Yet big oil companies have repeatedly hijacked efforts to slow global carbon emissions.

The Carbon War is a major call-to-arms for the safety of our planet. Throughout the last decade, Jeremy Leggett, a distinguished scientist at Oxford University and former director for Green peace, has worked doggedly to alert human kind to the threat of ecological catastrophe, He contents that the main enemies-Arab countries, the United States government, oil companies, and automobile manufacturers-have used junk science, an army of lobbyists, and outright lies to ensure that their profits stayed safer than the planet's future.

With the grace of a novelist and the precision of a scientist, Leggett recount his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues. Called the "best book yet about the politics of global worming" by John Gribbin the London Sunday Times, The Carbon War is a riveting read and a critical contribution to the fight for sustainable energy. ... Read more

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Okay
The book was in fairly okay condition except that it had laminated library stickers all over it, also I payed almost ten dollars extra for expedited shipping and it took over a week to get here, very slow service.
But I got the book, and I got the right book. If I had known it would have taken that long to get here I would have ordered elsewhere. Make sure you read exactly when they mandate the shipping!

An inside look at the politics of global warming
I found Jeremy Leggett's The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era quite
interesting and informative. Leggett, a renowned scientist at Oxford and a former
Greenpeace UK director, discusses the politics of global warming. He focuses on oil
dependence, while working in explanations of resulting climate change and the possible
impacts. It?s engaging because it goes behind the scenes in recounting important
conferences with scientific, intergovernmental, and business representatives, not all of
which would be covered by the media. He traveled all over the world for nearly a decade
while he directed Greenpeace's Climate Campaign, and wrote this account of it in a kind
of journal style with entries spanning from October 1989 to December 1997. I appreciated
his vivid writing style in illustrating scenes and people, which helped relieve the
density of scientific detail. While I had expected a dry, rather dull scientific text, it
proved appealing as well as instructive.
The first portion of the book concerns the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
which is a panel set up in 1988 by the UN General Assembly to advise governments on the
issue. The IPCC gathered worldwide input from scientists and experts over a year and a
half to formulate "consensus reports on the science of global warming, the probable
impacts, and the potential policy responses" (2), which is collectively called its
Scientific Assessment Report. At the time it was being prepared for the World Climate Conference where governments come together to decide what action to take. Leggett describes a series of
conferences with various governments, groups, scientists, and business leaders concerning
the final draft of this report. The first meeting mentioned deals with the summary of the
document. Strikingly, the draft states that 60-80% cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are
necessary to stabilize its atmospheric concentrations, a daunting goal. Leggett doesn?t
directly mention it but at least in the US such an extreme cut would be devastating to
the economy, with our dependence on oil leading to the colossal success of several major
oil companies. Thus throughout conferences in the book the US government, as well as oil
giants Saudi Arabia and Iran, refuses to set targets and timetables or make any kind of
commitment, arguing that the uncertainties over impacts make such action too drastic.
Legget emphasizes how scientists are certain that the current rates of greenhouse-gas
emissions will lead to climate change, but there is uncertainty over the degree of the
impacts because of the complexity of the climate system. Feedbacks in the climate system
are difficult to predict and almost impossible to calculate, making resulting climate
changes similar to a roll of dice. Toward the beginning of the semester we learned about
positive and negative feedback- positive leads to increase in a response while negative
contains the response, controlling it. In a warming world positive feedbacks would
amplify the warming by triggering extra carbon emissions from repositories in nature, and
negative feedbacks would suppress it (5). The concern is that the positive will end up
outweighing the negative. And the draft read that an overall increase rather than
decrease appears likely. All of this was more understandable because of learning about
climate change in class and about the carbon cycle.
Leggett has to deal with the frustrating responses of many people. Representatives of the
coal and oil industries, and countries dependent on them, deny the issue so their
livelihood won't be jeopardized. Others think that global warming is just a theory and
not a certainty, or aren't aware of just how urgent the situation is. At one point
Leggett gives a speech where he delivers his research of what the runaway greenhouse
effect or worst-case scenario would be. It describes how many island nations would be
submerged and coastline lost, unbreathable air, increase of famine, in areas of extremely
hot temperatures there would be many deaths leading to much conflict over water and food,
ect. He gives a survey on the worst case to around 100 different scientists- about 13%
say that they think it is a possibility. But the survey results are released to the media
who misrepresent the information, saying that only 13% of scientists thought that global
warming was happening. An oil company representative also gives a presentation and warps
the information because he is trying to recruit employers.
With this context you can really understand his vexation, and it draws the reader into
the cause. But yet his writing is hardly ever centered on himself despite the journal
style, but rather externally oriented. Other major points were the increase in coral
bleaching, which I hadn't known are the second major ecosystem in the world. He discusses
oil drilling at length, actually going to Siberia for an interview where a Texan company
is drilling. It should how drilling is happening in increasingly uninhabitable land, and
the Texans said that their motives are selfish, they don?t care about the earth and just
want to make money. Oil spills are another major issue. Each spill releases millions of
tones of oil onto the surface or in the ocean, which, in cold areas, doesn't evaporate
and breaks down very slowly.
The insurance industry is also in danger of crashing from paying the coverage of so many
major storms, which are increasing in frequency and intensity. Finance in general will
suffer great losses from cuts in emissions. After talking about insurance Legget mentions
a high tax on carbon use as a way to lessen emissions.
In trying to combat climate change I think the first step is raising awareness of the
urgency of the issue. Al Gore has admirably tried to do this, but the media has taken
hold of the topic and sensationalized it, which makes people less inclined to take it
seriously. Reliable information is key with this because of possible misrepresentation by
the media, as Leggett shows. This makes the public even less informed, and can be used to
downplay climate change to the public. Release of the runaway greenhouse effect
description could be very effective if delivered in a way that wouldn't cause a panic.
I think a carbon tax would help to an extent in decreasing emissions, but of course
carbon would still be burned. As the title of the work imparts, we are approaching the
end of the oil era. We cannot continue burning oil at our current rates for another
century without serious, even disastrous, consequences. This means we should focus on
research and development of alternative energy and fuel sources. Especially in such a
developed, industrialized, and technologically dependent country like the US, we are much
too used to moving around very quickly, making retrogression to earlier forms of
transportation out of the question. As alternative fuels are more accessible they will be
invested in, bringing back the economy. A huge issue is trying to convince the colossal
China, as well as India, to attempt to make cuts as well.

The Dark Side of Global Warming Politics
The Carbon War is aptly titled - it shows that the rough and tumble politics of global warming is actually a type of war, one fought with political weapons in the finest (or worst) Machiavellian approach using deception, lies, abuse of power, money, and any other means of gaining the desired goal.Although both sides in the debate (big business and governments beholden to big business versus environmental groups) resort to various machinations and deception to promote their agendas, as this book clearly demonstrates from a personal eye-witness (of one who was "in the trenches"), the big business consortium is much more guilty of lies, corruption, and blatant mis-use of power than the environmental side.One reason may simply be that the traditional energy industry (petrochemical and coal) fear they will lose significant amounts of money if they change the way they do business.

This book would be interesting to read in about 100 years.If things do not go well with mitigating climate change, the book could serve as an indictment of the guilty parties.If things do go well, people could say "I'm so glad governments didn't listen to those energy companies".

Easily five stars.Also, unfortunately in some ways, a very eye-opening look at the way international environmental politics is conducted.It probably goes without saying that many large energy companies really do not care about what is right for the average human, they only care about what is right for their shareholders.If you are still undecided on whether or not global warming is real, or is an issue you should be concerned about, and you receive conflicting information, keep in mind as you decide who is most likely to more truthful - the side trying to keep the planet livable, or the side with the most money to lose?

(Second Review one week later, same Reviewer): Title of Second Review: Casualties High in the Carbon War.

Jeremy Leggett has written a fascinating first-person account of an environmental organization representative's front row seat to the battle waged during the development of the Kyoto Protocol.As others have stated, politics is really a type of blood sport, with the winners left standing and everybody else dying or wounded.As Mr. Leggett points out, the real casualties are the truth and the average person.Huge amounts of money are at stake in any plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and most plans will create new winners in the changing market, and also will create new losers.No existing company wants to be one of the losers, and they will do everything in their power to maintain the status quo.If you aren't already suspicious of the petrochemical energy business, you probably will be after reading this book.(Note: Large energy companies do not necessarily have your best interests in mind.)

The Carbon Policy Wars
For a geologist Jeremy Leggett is a suprisingly good writer.As described in the previous reviews he details some of the history leading up to the Kyoto accords and provides insight from the participants perception.The meetings, the debates, the radio and TV interviews are all here. You will also read about all the tension and conflict that this global problem with its immense economic immplications brings to a head.

This book is mainly about the politics of the world climate change policies and does not have very much content regarding the science of climate change.I would have liked to see more of the science and perhaps a bit less of the details of meetings after more meetings.If you want to learn more about the science I would recommend Spencer Weart's The Discovery of Global Warming and John Houghton's Global Warming: The Complete Briefing.If you want to read about the war between Exxon,big Coal,corporate media, and environmentalists, scientists, and the countries that are first in line to suffer from the consequences of global warming this is your book.

Required reading for the informed citizen
Many authors, in meticulous science journalism style, write good environmental science and policy books that are worth reading.

Jeremy Leggett's "Carbon War" is an outstanding contribution from the front lines.A journal from a key player in the carbon war, with insights on other key players on all sides.

Leggett puts you at the international summits, to witness the best and worst elements at work.There are many books that will inform you on global climate change issues (and some that will intentionally disinform you).But few, if any, let you peer into the international efforts (and counterefforts) to deal with climate change like the "Carbon War."

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Global environmental change represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods. As this book shows, at the same time, agriculture and related activities also contribute to climate change, by intensifying greenhouse gas emissions and altering the land surface. Responses aimed at adapting to climate change may have negative consequences for food security, just as measures taken to increase food security may exacerbate climate or other environmental change. The authors show that his complex and dynamic relationship between climate change, agriculture and food security is also influenced by additional factors. Agricultural and food systems are heavily influenced by socioeconomic conditions, which in turn are affected by multiple processes such as macro-level economic policies, political conflicts and the spread of infectious diseases.

This book provides a major, accessible synthesis of the current state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between global environmental change and food security. While some other books look at the links between climate change and agricultural production, they do not extend this to food security. In contrast, this book addresses the broader issues, based on a novel food system concept and stressing the need for actions at a regional, rather than just an international or local, level. It reviews new thinking which has emerged over the last decade, and looks forward towards adaptation and mitigation strategies for the next decade. ... Read more

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Get the most up-to-date information on how a vegetarian diet can improve your health and the world you live in! Learn howto achieve optimal nutrition through your diet that will prevent most chronic diseases, reduce global warming, yield more food for the world and require fewer natural resources to do so.Written in a light-hearted and supportive manner, you'll discover learning about the importance of your food choices can be fun and rewarding. ... Read more

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Loved the book!
What is great about this book? The book is a pleasure to read and packed with useful information. Hard facts mixed with a soft style and sense of humor adds to the enjoyment of reading this book.
I would reccommend this book to any reader who is curious and to thosewho follow a vegetarian diet.

An informed and informative, inspired and inspiring read
Medical studies and the personal experiences of hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated that plant-based diets can prevent or improve the conditions of high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and osteoporosis. Moreover, plant-based diets avoid such meat-borne diseases as E. coli infections and outbreaks that seem to be constantly in the news today. Additionally, turning to plant-based diets has a positive effect on such environmental issues as global warming, rainforest depletion, animal abuse, and world-wide hunger. "The Vegetarian Solution" by Stewart Rose (vice president of the non-profit Vegetarians of Washington, the largest regional vegetarian organization in the United States) provides up-to-date information documenting the nutritional benefits of a plant-based diet for children, athletes, and senior citizens; preventing and improving a wide variety of medical illnesses; how plant-based diets require fewer natural resources than meat-based diets; and a wealth of advice and suggestions on making a transition to a plant-based diet. An informed and informative, inspired and inspiring read for anyone contemplating changing over to a plant-based diet which entails giving up meat and meat products in their meals, "The Vegetarian Solution" is highly recommended and thoroughly 'user friendly' read.

The Vegetarian Solution
A very browsable brook, well-written, with interesting and easily understandable graphics that support key points. I'm not a vegetarian, but this book sure is valuable in encouraging me to incorporate even more whole, fresh produce into my diet. In every chapter, I learned something new about physiology and nutrition and the benefits of a plant-based diet. This book is good for anyone interested in improving their health and the health of our society and environment as a whole.

This is a good one!
I have been a lifelong vegetarian, and this is by far the best collection of the relevant information I have seen.It is comprehensive in its scope, including practical tips on moving toward a plant-based diet as well as facts about how food choices impact health, world hunger, animals, and the environment.It is attractive and well-organized, easy to read.All information presented has been backed up by scientific research.No sensational claims are made (I appreciate that).One fun feature includes a list of famous people, past and present who are vegetarian, and in general I would say it has a light-hearted feel. ... Read more

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Chapters: Greenhouse Effect, Albedo, Global Warming Potential, Sunlight, Urban Heat Island, Climate Model, Cloud Forcing, Hemispherical Photography, Infrared Window, Radiative Forcing, Waste Heat, Earth's Energy Budget, Runaway Greenhouse Effect. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 97. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas. The phenomenon was first investigated and described by Luke Howard in the 1810s, although he was not the one to name the phenomenon. The temperature difference usually is larger at night than during the day, and is most apparent when winds are weak. Seasonally, UHI is seen during both summer and winter. The main cause of the urban heat island is modification of the land surface by urban development which uses materials which effectively retain heat. Waste heat generated by energy usage is a secondary contributor. As population centers grow they tend to modify a greater and greater area of land and have a corresponding increase in average temperature. The lesser-used term heat island refers to any area, populated or not, which is consistently hotter than the surrounding area. Monthly rainfall is greater downwind of cities, partially due to the UHI. Increases in heat within urban centers increases the length of growing seasons, and decreases the occurrence of weak tornadoes. Increases in the death rate during heat waves has been shown to increase by latitude due to the urban heat island effect . The UHI decreases air quality by increasing the production of pollutants such as ozone, and decreases water quality as warmer waters flow into area streams, which stresses their ecosystems. Not all cities have a distinct urban heat island. Mitigation of the urban heat is...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=32236 ... Read more

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This exciting compendium compiled from the pages of North America's leading green educator journal is packed with lesson plans, activities, experiments, and worksheets that teach about global warming. From calculating your school's CO2 emissions and Greenhouse experiments, to strategies for reducing school energy and supply consumption, Teaching About Climate Change provides the tools to get any classroom or community involved in making their school cool. ... Read more

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Great classroom resource
Nice book for the classroom teacher, applicable to a variety of grade levels.It's filled with positive actions that students can take - in & out of the classroom - to curb climate change.There's plenty of background information to make sense of it all, too. ... Read more

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Inspired by an incident which actually happened in Pat's life, the book tells the story of how a young boy and his friends set out to help the boy's father with his new business and end up creating the most active club in their school, one that involved students from every class.

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Kids "Can" fight it, if we encourage them!
Kids "can" do so many things, if they are permitted to,and "will" do many things if they are encouraged to. This author explains a somewhat complicated subject in terms that preteens and teens can easily understand.He encourages them to be the "leaders" in fighting the "monster" of global warming, citing many simple things that can really make a difference.

This text is short, concise, factual, and colorful---all important to make the subject "kid-friendly."It's one resource with many uses with our Girl Scouts.We strongly encourage you to make this book a part of your library for tomorrow's "leaders".

Excellent Book
I would like to highly recommend this book. I believe children will find it an great informative read. It will hold their interest and may inspire them to search out more topics on global warming or start their own club. A book that can truely make a difference.
As an adult I enjoyed the book. It was so easy to read and a great story.
Bunny McLeod is a great storyteller and I always expect the best in any book she writes. I always look forward to reading any book she writes and purchase a copy right away.

Greatly interesting story and informative at the same time
I found this book to be an interesting as a story and informative at the same time.I believe it is one that will hold a child's interest and inspire them to start their own KIDSGWSOSCLUB.I believe this book can make a world of difference, literally and highly reccomend it. ... Read more

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Dr. Cristian Negureanu brings out another of his outstanding works on the global considerations of human existence - this time it treats a subject of great interest today, namely the global warming of the planet.

What is remarkable in his study are the links of the subject to the hypotheses of extraterrestrial interventions on Earth, including the origin of humans and the ancient history of the mankind.

The author uses ancient writings (the Bible, the Koran, The Book of Enoch, and the Sumerian writings) as sources containing proofs of the extraterrestrial origin of humans and their links to planet Eris, which seems that it was a sort of station for some categories of extraterrestrials.

Combining interpretations of the ancient writings (the book contains a great number of them) with the scientific facts regarding planet Eris, the author proves - and many scientists confirm his observations - that this celestial object is the sole cause of what is happening now on Earth with the climate. What is also interesting - and discussed in the book - is that NASA is aware of this information and has already taken some measures of surveillance of this planet through one of its launched space missions.

The real cause of climate changes, volcanic activity, and the intensification of seismic activity is the approach to our solar system of the planet Eris, an intermediary named 2003 - UB - 313, known in Antiquity under various names such as Nibiru, Marduk, Nemesis, Hercolubus, The Gods' Planet, The Planet of the Empire, The Planet of the Cross, or The Red Planet.

The planet Eris/Nibiru periodically comes closer to Earth once every 3,600 years and generates numerous climate changes, one being global warming with its natural consequence, the melting of the glaciers. The effect of glaciers melting, because of their sweet water, will be the ending of the thermo-saline natural system, the "engine" that allows the Gulfstream circulation to the North and the freezing of wide areas in northwestern Europe and northeastern United States.

Briefly, here is the process that took place during the last two periods during which the Gods' planet has passed between Mars and Jupiter, its nearest point to Earth:

- 7200 years ago, during the cataclysm known as "Noah's flood," sudden changes in temperature, violent storms, and water avalanches from Antarctica broke off from their "ice prison."
- 3600 years ago, during the Jews' Exodus from Egypt in the middle of the second millennium B.C., the Earth suffered major upheavals. A celestial body entered our solar system and came very close to Earth, causing the eventual disappearance of the glacier layer.

Now it is time for the planet Eris to pass again through our solar system, and we should expect the same climate changes. The effects of this astronomic event are already being seen worldwide, and they will get more acute in the next years.

These are the facts around which the book is developed in a purely informative style, but nourished with biblical passages whose real interpretations are hard to accept initially, but which become quite clear when linked one to another.

It is an enlightening journey through a history of mankind we never think about, which can help us not only to understand what is happening now with the human race, but also even to predict the near future.

Eugen Evu, Member of the Romanian Union of Writers:

"A brilliant, condensed, and charming synthesis of the hypotheses of the great researcher Zecharia Sitchin[...] Negureanu [...] with erudition, intuition, and excellent documentation, concentrates the latest data from the wide library of the world..."

Ion Tugui, well-known parapsychology writer:

"Dr. Cristian Negureanu proves to be highly trained to write a parallelism that is quite self-restrained with respect to reasoning: on one side, the logic of historical and archeological facts and events, and on the other side, the invoking of some elements that can be physically and functionally explained only through modern scientific knowledge." ... Read more

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Brave ideas!
Planet Eris and the Global Warming" is a brilliant, condensed and charming synthesis of the hypotheses of the great researcher Zecharia Sitchin, who studied and interpreted the 25,000 plates in Mesopotamia - Sumer. Cristian Negureanu does not limit only to reflect on the book "The Twelfth Planet", but he eruditely, highly intuitively and very well documented concentrates the latest information from the wide library of the world, which is visibly a real publishing boom on all over the globe
Dr. Cristian Negureanu also has pertinent and polemical ideas, including against Sitchin, and his book is the outcome of his long exploration in what we would call the Great Agitation that precedes the Revelation. His study is perfectly related to the ancient writings: Enuma Elis, Ghilgames Epos, loam libraries or contested secret archives (especially The Book of Enoch), and The Bible.
The author performs essential deciphering of a wide occult thesaurus. Maybe Elohim (the plural of God) and Anunaki (nephilims) do inspire the people, by opening their mind eye [...] Who does want, will loom it, who does not, will stay in the darkness of Plato's Cave, as Heidegger defined it!
The book is written to be comprehensible also by the laymen, which is remarkable. Cristian Negureanu represents the mystical exaltation of the extremes pro and against the evidences in the space of interference of: Mythology - Religions - Archeology - History - Astrophysics - Knowledge.
Being passionate for the last few decades of this top field of humanity, I consider "Planet Eris and the Global Warming" as the book of the year!
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Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and cogent book-reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events--David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument. He explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative.

Global warming continues to dominate environmental news as legislatures worldwide grapple with the process of ratification of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The collapse of the November 2000 conference at the Hague showed clearly how difficult it will be to bring the Kyoto treaty into force. Yet most politicians, policymakers, and analysts hailed it as a vital first step in slowing greenhouse warming. David Victor was not among them.

Kyoto's fatal flaw, Victor argues, is that it can work only if emissions trading works. The Protocol requires industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to specific targets. Crucially, the Protocol also provides for so-called "emissions trading," whereby nations could offset the need for rapid cuts in their own emissions by buying emissions credits from other countries. But starting this trading system would require creating emission permits worth two trillion dollars--the largest single invention of assets by voluntary international treaty in world history. Even if it were politically possible to distribute such astronomical sums, the Protocol does not provide for adequate monitoring and enforcement of these new property rights. Nor does it offer an achievable plan for allocating new permits, which would be essential if the system were expanded to include developing countries.

The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol--which Victor views as inevitable--will provide the political space to rethink strategy. Better alternatives would focus on policies that control emissions, such as emission taxes. Though economically sensible, however, a pure tax approach is impossible to monitor in practice. Thus, the author proposes a hybrid in which governments set targets for both emission quantities and tax levels. This offers the important advantages of both emission trading and taxes without the debilitating drawbacks of each.

Individuals at all levels of environmental science, economics, public policy, and politics-from students to professionals--and anyone else hoping to participate in the debate over how to slow global warming will want to read this book. ... Read more

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Much ado about nothing.
David Victor presents an interesting story with one major omission which tends to disqualify the book completely.

Blithely assuming that emissions controls can reverse a modest climate change without as much as an attempt to understand the nature of the present climate trend, especially in a perspective giving at least some comprehension of why climate change constantly occurs, the book cooks up a lot or reasoning about nothing.

The cart is solidly before the horse and I suggest other transportation for those interested in the Kyoto conundrum.

A Very Important Book
For many who favor taking action to control global warming, a book which points out the fatal flaws in the Kyoto Protocol is going to be somewhat unwelcome.However, David Victor makes a very compelling case that the Protocol is unworkable as negotiated.By creating an immensely valuable new financial asset (emissions permits) and a trading system, it opens up problems related to enforcement and monitoring, the protection of property rights under international law, the inclusion of "illiberal" governments with weak legal systems in the regime, and large politically unpalatable (and essentially unearned) transfers of wealth to Russia and Ukraine.

How does the system deal with a government, for example, which pockets its payments for selling emission permits, then pulls out of the regime when it ceases to be profitable?How are additional countries to be brought into the regime without giving them the incentive of very high "worst case" emissions targets?How do you create an asset which is allocated based on statistical data which may be imperfect?

[If anything, Victor is too *optimistic* about the ability to accurately monitor CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.As an example of this one needs only to look at Chinese coal consumption data, which has fallen by a rather implausible amount in the last half-decade, for reasons internal to China having nothing to do with Kyoto.Questionable official data (and the possibility of intentionally skewed data) for developing countries is a real impediment to their future inclusion in any regime.]

Certainly many will criticize Victor's proposed "hybrid" system, which combines elements of emissions trading and taxation, for being even more complex than Kyoto's "cap and trade" system, and for setting an absolute ceiling for permit prices rather than for emissions, but he does make a set of powerful arguments in favor of such a system.

Hopefully, this book will help produce a more informed debate about a very complex, and immensely important, set of issues.This book is clearly a "must read" for anyone interested in global climate change. ... Read more

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Author's note
Slightly updated.Ought to be useful for both high school and college reading assignments. Unlike most climate books, it has a thorough examination of abrupt shifts in climate. (There have been six, global in scale, since 1976.)

Global Fever
Excellent book!Written in such a way as to be understandable to those with little background in climate issues yet blunt enough in its analysis to wake up those who politically or otherwise are laggards when it comes to moving forward on existential environmental issues.Written in plain english!

Even Handed Approach on How to Get Out of the GW Problem
The author is a neurosurgeon by training, but has a solid background in science that certainly qualifies him to write on the topic of this book. As such, he provides a fairly even handed view without a particular ax to grind. Years ago I read his very enjoyable and interesting The River That Flows Uphill -- From the Big Bang to the Big Brain. It's about his thoughts on such matters as he journeys down the Colorado River.In this book the backdrop is global warming, or, as he puts it, global fever. That backdrop isn't quite so pleasing. It starts with the defensible premise that it exists and we need to do something about it soon, 2020, to stop its catastrophic effects.

The book has some formidable forerunners, such as those by Tim Flannery (Weather Makers) or Elizabeth Kolbert (Field Notes ...). Calvin has plenty to say about how to proceed against antropogenic global warming, and takes the reader through many technical aspects of it with descriptions of (scientific) feedback (as opposed to social), mechanisms of sudden climate shifts, the importance of CO2 versus water and methane as key indicators, and the basics of climate modeling. Particularly important are his comments about the spread of disinformation. It's widespread, but after reading his book, you'll be in a better position to recognize it. There's an interesting comment early in the book about why Al Gore does not appear to support nuclear power, page 30.

He has a good appendix on further reads, and interesting notes in the back to supplement the text. His Read Widely appendix, in the last paragraph, discusses reliable sources, e.g., Real Climate (maintained by climate scientists, Google), and some that are just front organizations for business as usual (GlobalWarming ...). To get a good feel for the writing style, see his web page (Google). He has a couple of downloadable chapters, and more information on the subject of global fever. One fun one that caught my eye was a reference to the old (60s) Bell (Telephone) Science, a TV series. One episode was called Unchained Goddess. A one minute snippet can be found on YouTube. Yes, even then we new about the threat. (The complete DVD, 1 hour, of it can be found on Amazon. It's still a very good and light introduction to the basics of climate.)

A small word of warning. His book says the charts and diagrams are available on his web site for use. This is partly true. They are in the pdf files, but for only three chapters. A few minor points about the book are the charts and diagrams are sometimes hard to read, and the text sometimes loosely describes them. If you get stuck on explanations, skip ahead. There's lots of interesting material in the book. ... Read more

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The 6+ billion inhabitants of earth aspire to higher standards of living. This takes energy. If fossil fuels continue to be the key source of energy their waste product, carbon dioxide, will produce disagreeable changes in the climate. Depletion of fossil fuels will cause the cost of energy and fuel based chemicals to spiral. Climate change and high fuel prices will thwart these aspirations and will increase the probability of lethal international conflicts over energy supplies. We must stop using fossil fuels.

Optimistically, we could switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources (solar, wind, etc.). Regrettably these sources are difficult to harvest and unreliable. They cannot, alone, serve as a base load energy supply for humanity. Fission nuclear power yields extremely hazardous waste for which no fully agreeable disposal method has been developed.

Laurence Williams applied aerospace systems analysis techniques to seek a new energy system. An End to Global Warming presents his results. He shows why we must stop using fossil fuels and evaluates a host of alternatives to arrive at a robust energy system that will modernize world energy production and protect the environment. A by-product of this system will ameliorate problems associated with supplying potable water and in processing waste. The nations that develop the system described in An End to Global Warming will be gifted with huge financial reward and the pride in knowing that they have preserved the earth for all mankind.

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A Review of: An End to Global Warming
Book Review - "An End to Global Warming" by Laurence O. Williams

Laurence O. Williams' book, "An End to Global Warming" foretells of a not-to-distant future in which global warming and melting of ice caps due to fossil fuel consumption will submerge most of the worlds coastal cities. We have all heard predictions of Armageddon from impending environmental disasters and in some cases, have learned to take these predictions with a grain of salt. However if one proceeds through this book with this superficial approach a feeling of uneasiness soon begins to take over.
Williams has laid out his premise in a very logical systems analysis approach starting at the component parts, taking time to define scientific terms and concepts, construct relationships based on tables of relevant data, and extensively referencing pertinent results and extrapolations.
Societies increasing output of carbon dioxide and the correlation's of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere and global temperature changes are frightening.This data, along with observations of recent climactic changes and ice shelf effects, provide support to the seriousness and urgency of this global problem.Although one could possibly argue with the author's timelines as to future environmental disasters, the inevitability of these occurrences if we proceed down our current energy usage pathway is well foretold.As the real and projected effects of this warming on the earth are described and supported one is caught up in an appreciation of the magnitude of this problem could have on our future generations.The comprehensive analyses given to the many elements considered in this book may slow the reader slightly, but the author does an excellent job of putting concepts and terms in simple understandable descriptions.Time is taken, to the author's credit, to point out the colossal waste in burning our limited petroleum products which could be used for the production of needed medicines, polymers and other valuable organic industrial materials.
However, the pivotal concept that makes this book important is that Williams does more than bemoan a bleak, energy restrictive future, he offers us a well thought out solution.This solution, which is based on a clean primary energy source, and a clean transportable fuel, is based on technologies that are themselves not completely new, but on the coalescing of concepts to accomplish this unique energy revolution.
Williams gives a detailed approach for implementation of this concept and it is persuasive and elegantly constructed. The case is made for the need of a transportable fuel, and alternate fuels are compared.However, the choice of the primary transportable fuel is well supported.As a mater of fact, it is not only the optimum fuel it is probably the only choice for a transportable clean fuel.The considerations for the practical utilization of this fuel in domestic and industrial uses are studied in detail.
A new energy source is boldly presented by the author as the primary energy source for the production of electrical energy and transportable fuel. Seawater would provide all of our clean envirinmental needs.It would be utilized in this new low pollution society to more efficiently clean up polluted water and more completely destroy organic wastes. The development of a new power system is the cornerstone of this clean energy concept, and the one that makes to conversion to a pollution-free environment a possibility.More available alternate energy systems, such as solar and fission, may still allow the transition to a clean energy society and afford an interim approach to phase out carbon dioxide producing systems. However, I believe Williams is correct in emphasizing the urgency for an all out Manhattan-type project to develop this new clean power system.
The logic of the overall approach is undeniable and the insight into why, how, and when is sobering, but also interesting and exciting.Larry Williams' enthusiasm and urgency to implement an immediate change in how we look at our energy future and our environment is apparent.This book is worthy of our time to read and our commitment to do some deep thinking on the implication of these concepts on society.Hopefully this concept will motivate us all to become personally involved in the implementation of change to a more pollution-free, energy-rich, future environment.
David W. Neiswander Ph.D.-Environmental Consultant- Knoxville, TN.

A must read
Mr Williams has produced here a thoughtful study of what is perhaps the most important scio economic and environmental problem of our age.This is not an overstatement and this work deserves to be read and pondered.

The problem is energy.In this age a large reliable and safe source of energy is a necessity.It is not a luxury that can be forgone and the demand for energy will increase as more of the worlds populations come to demand the fruits of civilization--all of which, from agriculture to cell phones, require energy.

What is urgently needed is a comprehensive scenerio by which this can be accomplished.This Herculean task is what Mr. Williams has attempted--with considerable success.

It is difficult to cover all of the facets of this work in a short review, however,as an overview, Mr. williams concludes that the only vible approach will be to accept the inevitablilty of hydrogen as the portable fuel of choice and--shocking as it may seem to some--nuclear power as the original source of energy.

Along the way to reaching these conclusions, he has found it necessary to evaluate various alternatives--including the popular one of widespread conservation, which would be helpful of course, but is unlikely to be achieved on any broad basis.Mr. Williams give many of these ideas--such as solar power and a host of others--serious and courteous consideration.They all have a place--in this reviewers opinion at least--nevertheless, when examined in depth (as he does) inevitably fall short of promisinga long term, ultimate solution.This part of the book is, by itself, worth reading.

The next stumbling block in accepting Mr. William's thesis is his insistance that nuclear power must be the primary source for energy.He envisions large plants producing the hydrogen from water and and, of course, there is a strong cultural bias in the general public agains anything nuclear.The foundations for this bias are dealt with convincingly.The radiation bugaboo is examined as well the general hazards which, as he shows, are no more extreme than in any energy realte activity on a large scale.Suffice it to say that coal mining and drilling for oil present similar hazards and hydrogen as a portable fuel is no more of a hazard than gasolene--although we are accustomed to the latter and familiarity breeds a level of complacency.

One starts reading a work like Mr. Willliam's rather cynically, expecting a grandiose plan for a perfect world--knowing that the devil is in the details, which are usually not provided.I am pleased to report that in this case, many of the details are identified and dealt with in an orderly fashion with a convincing candor.The plan presented here is intriguing and well documented and worthy of serious considersation.

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Human beings are not very bright. The power output of the human brain is about 40 watts, and that is indeed pretty dim. We definitely are all dim wits. This book was written for dim wits - from one dim wit to another, as they say. Its primary purpose is to address the controversy affectionately known as global warming. Written by a physical scientist with over 40 years of teaching experience, the book contains very little personal opinion, has no political agenda, and is loaded with well-documented and scientifically tested facts concerning the greenhouse gases and climate change. It contains material that you will want to share with your children.Global Warming for Dim Wits is written in simple language. Every attempt has been made to present the material in a way that the average person not trained in science will understand. It is the intent of this author that by the time you finish the book you will be convinced that:- greenhouse gases do not control the climate, the climate controls greenhouse gases- your children will understand that they are safe and the sky is not falling- climate change is a natural process that takes tens of thousands of years to occur. ... Read more

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Anthropgenic Global Warming is Junk Science
Now that I have your attention, I am not qualified to declare that AGW is junk science.But if you are open to that argument, or if you are a true believer in the warmist agenda, then this is the book for you.

Barrante, a Harvard-educated professor of physical chemistry, takes a close look at two chemical processes and finds that a correct understanding of them refutes man-made global warming theory - Henry's Law governing the solubility of CO2 in our oceans and Beer's Law governing the logarithmic rate at which CO2 can absorb infrared radiation.

Barrante further argues that warmists confuse causes with effects, a typical mistake made by untrained scientists, and disregard the geologic record showing pre-historic climate change irrespective of human activity.After all, the geologic record shows much higher levels of C02 (and the earth thrived) and much wider swings in temperature long before and without any human footprint. Who's to say that the current climate is optimal?

I live near New York city.A mere 10,000 years ago, a huge layer of ICE covered the area.I am very glad it warmed up! ... Read more

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A theory is developed based on well established principles of physics and astronomy that correctly predicts the time and latitude of the retreat of the recent North American ice age and the warming observed BP. The role of green house gases in determining the temperature of Earth is also discussed in detail. Equations are derived and used to calculate the effects of changes in eccentricity of Earth's orbit, the spin axis tilt angle, and the direction of the spin axis(the precession angle) on the energy received from the sun at any point on Earth. The equations predict a quasi-periodic variation in energy received by Earth as the precession angle advances counterclockwise. Many graphs showing energy received by Earth as a function of latitude, precession and spin axis tilt angles and the orbital position of Earth are contained in the book. ... Read more

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This book questions the existence of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and exposes errors of global warming advocates. It uses satellite global temperature measurements to show that the "late twentieth century warming" simply did not exist. What satellites do see in the eighties and nineties is that global temperature simply oscillated around a median value by half a degree Celsius, in synch with the El Nino- Southern Oscillation stages. Real warming began with 1he 1998 super El Nino but that did not last and was not caused by carbon dioxide greenhouse effect either. In 2007 we got some serious cooling while climate models using carbon dioxide theory insisted on relentless warming at the same time. If a theory predicts warming and we get cooling that theory as a scientific theory has failed and must be abandoned. Since the Kyoto Protocol and the proposed Copenhagen Treay depend on the correctness that theory to tell us what temperatures to expect and since that theory has been proven to be incapable of doing that both treaties must be abandoned. There is no scientific justification for them and the only thing that supports them is propaganda from the climate activist movement. ... Read more

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Temperature Data: Satellite vs. Thermometer - Which is right?
The author has published in book form, what is apparently essentially a research paper that he wrote earlier that was rejected by both Science and Nature journals.It should be pointed out that both of these journals are firmly in the anthropogenic global warming camp, and research that does not support that view would usually be rejected by their editors.

The author has reviewed the satellite temperature data, accurate to +/- 0.03 degrees Celsius, in itself far more accurate than ground based thermometers, but the interesting thing he found was that the satellite data show no warming trend from 1978 to 2008, only an oscillation of temperature, cooling and warming, of 0.4 to 0.5 degrees, with a period of 3-5 years.The only exception was 1997 to 1999, which showed significant warming.The author suggests this was due to the appearance of a Super El Nino.He states that, except for that brief warming, the global temperature follows the normal El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) period and pattern, and that it is ENSO that determines the climate change, not CO2.He states that if there is no warming trend, then rising CO2 is not causing any warming.

It is a short, well-written paper, illustrated with easily read charts and satellite images.I believe this book adds in no small measure to the body of research.

Knowledgeable and reasoned
The author is knowledgeable about his area of expertise; satellite temperature data and the processes that are driving the normal (natural) fluctuations in global temperature. He describes how the traditional means of measuring global temperature with ground stations has been flawed (likely intentionally) and demonstrates how the satellite temperature data record fits the well known natural variability and occillations much better. An honest and successful attempt to let the pure science and unadulterated temperature data speak for us to give us a true sense of the recent global temperatures. Clearly, when politicians and big money get too involved with science it can morph into pseudo-science and become untrustworthy. The author rises above the fray to present us a thoughtful and well-reasoned book worth reading. ... Read more

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The New York based Global Shift Inc., and its joint venture partner, EcoLogic, have been studying the effects of global warming for more than two decades. EcoLogic grabbed international attention with AtmosFear; a climate change modelling system that torpedoed its competitors out of the water.

EcoLogic scientists make headlines when they predict a global catastrophe in less than six years. They put forward impressive scenarios to demonstrate massive destruction from rising sea levels.

The Australian government is sceptical about the projections, but it can’t afford to take the risk that they might be correct. The Prime Minister, whilst still unconvinced, agrees to fund a massive relocation plan to help coastal residents move to inland locations.
People are reluctant to leave their prime real estate, but when another great tsunami smashes through Asia they begin to accept the threat as real.

EcoLogic’s CEO. Claudia McBride, is shocked when Global Shift’s founder, Christoph Zelig, claims there are bugs in the software, or someone in the New York office has manipulated data.

Jacob Sawyer, a climate change sceptic, and Solomon Bellingham, the minister for the environment, scheme the greatest swindle of all times, and a done-deal with a major civil engineering company guarantees Sawyer a kick-back that will set him up for life.

Faced with the possibility of inaccurate data outputs, Claudia is torn between reuniting with the man she loves, loyalty to the people who helped her build the company, and revealing the truth. She has two choices; tell the Prime Minister everything, and ruin her company. Or say nothing, and claim the personal happiness she craves.
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Global warming is a complicated problem. Gas Trees and Car Turds is a fun, fast read about the carbon cycle: trees are made of air and water, electricity is made from coal that is made from trees, gasoline is made from plankton, and all of these things are related to each other and to our climate through carbon dioxide. This colorfully illustrated book makes carbon dioxide, an invisible odorless gas responsible for global warming and plant growth, into something that can be imagined and understood by children. ... Read more

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Excellent, original way to explain global warming to kids and adults
Put on your oxygen shoes! Kirk Johnson is well known and loved for making physical science seem not only real, but funny and engaging. Look no further to understand why planting trees helps reduce greenhouse gases, how much carbon your car produces on an average trip, and how carbon becomes carbon dioxide (see-oh-too) and vice versa, and more.... ... Read more