Book Review In Part 4 of Seeking Sustainability in an Age of Complexity Graham Harris tells us that: “The emerging solutions require a new world view.” “The application of physics to the high frequency dynamics of markets (using data on market fluctuations at scales of minutes) has resulted in a discipline called financial physics …
Book review In Part 3 of Earth in the Balance: Ecology and Human Spirit, Senator Al Gore tells us in Chapter 3: Climate and Civilization: A Short History, that: “Perhaps it can be said that civilization has passed the formative stage and has reached a mature configuration, a worldwide community or global village.” “Is …
Book review In Part 3 of Earth in the Balance: Ecology and Human Spirit, Senator Al Gore tells us in Chapter 3: Climate and Civilization: A Short History, that: “Perhaps it can be said that civilization has passed the formative stage and has reached a mature configuration, a worldwide community or global village.” “Is our …
Book review In Part 1 of Earth in the Balance: Ecology and Human Spirit, Senator Al Gore tells us that: “Too often we are unwilling to look beyond ourselves to see the effect of our actions today on our children and grandchildren. Many people have lost faith in the future because in virtually every facet …
Book review In Feeding People is Easy, published in 2007, Colin Tudge points out that: “Food is the most pressing issue and the thing we absolutely have to get right. Get agriculture wrong, and everything else is compromised.” “The world population now stands at 6.4 billion (6400 million), of whom roughly 1 million are chronically …
Book Review Below you will find Part 9 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Mitigation acts to reduce the upper bounds of projected warming, and thus to avoid the most extreme and damaging possibilities. Mitigation action taken now will have its most significant …
Book Review Below you will find Part 8 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Adaptation is necessary because climate change is already happening, and the long lag times in the climate system make further climate change, and especially sea-level rise, inevitable.” “Because …
Book Review Below you will find Part 7 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Studies of past episodes of rapid climate change such as the Younger Dryas event deserve special attention. There is much evidence to suggest that past climatic fluctuations have not …
2011 Diary Week 1 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part 5 of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm is below. Here are a few snippets: “About two-thirds of U.S. oil consumption is …
2010 Diary week 51 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part 4 of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm is below. Here are a few snippets: “The biggest climate threat in the power …
