2010 Diary week 42 Climate Change Book Review These are some snippets from Foreword by Dr Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. “An extremely eloquent statement is conveyed in the title of Chapter 4, which states ‘Uncertainty is inevitable, but …
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2010 Diary week 41 Predicting the future Book Review These are some snippets from the review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future: “The mother of all environmental impact predictions is the required assurance of 10,000 years of safety from the Yucca Mountain repository of the nation’s radioactive waste.” “Agencies that depend …
2010 Diary week 40 Climate Change Education Book Review These are some snippets from the review of Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University by Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton: “Global warming poses a threat to every institution in society, including colleges, universities, and their host communities. How we address the issue will …
2010 Diary week 39 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part VII of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “El Niňo is a periodic reversal of ocean currents, winds, and weather systems …
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2010 Diary week 38 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part VI of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Today we can see this extraordinary climatic history recorded in ice cores extracted …
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2010 Diary week 37 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part V of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Advances in geology revealed that not one ice age but a whole series …
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2010 Diary week 36 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below is the review of Part IV of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Reason to fear truly does lurk in the frozen bogs of western Siberia. There, beneath …
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2010 Diary week 35 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below is the review of Part III of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Over three days in March 2002, there occurred one of the most dramatic alterations to …
2010 Diary week 34 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part II of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce is posted below. These are some snippets: “Welcome to the Anthropocene, a new geological era. A single species is in charge of the planet, …
2010 Diary week 33 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part 1 of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “The Greenland Sea occupies a basin between Greenland, Norway, Iceland, and the Arctic …
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