Global Warming

Global warming

2010 Diary week 50 Climate Change: A strategy for action Book Review Below you will find Part 5 of the continuation of the review of Chapter 11 of Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton with the title ‘Energy and Transport for the Future’. These are some snippets: “Hydroelectric schemes so not have to …

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Global Warming

2010 Diary week 49 Climate Change: A Strategy for Action Book Review Below you will find Part 4 of the review of Chapter 11 of Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton with the title ‘Energy and Transport for the Future’. These are some snippets: “In 1990 the world consumption of energy was about …

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Global Warming

2010 Diary week 48 Climate Change: A strategy for action Book Review Below you will find Part 3 of the review of Chapter 10 of Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton with the title ‘A Strategy for Action to Slow and Stabilize Climate Change’. These are the conclusions. Summary of the action required …

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Climate change

2010 Diary week 46 Climate Change Book Review Below you will find Part 5 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Human-induced climate change is only an issue if it is large enough and rapid enough to create real problems for natural ecosystems and …

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Climate change, global warming, weather extremes

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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Predicting the future

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 …

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