I read Paul Edward’s A Vast Machine this summer while working with Steve Easterbrook. It was highly relevant to my research, but I would recommend it to anyone interested in climate change or mathematical modelling. Think The Discovery of Global Warming, but more specialized. Much of the public seems to perceive observational data as superior [...]
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A Vast Machine
Posted in Reviews, tagged climate change, climate models, computing, data, edwards, environment, global warming, history, mathematics, ncar, science on October 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
Posted in Reviews, tagged climate change, communication, cook, denial, education, environment, global warming, hansen, postmodernism, science, skeptic, skeptical science, venus, washington on August 11, 2011 | 17 Comments »
I recently finished reading Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand by Haydn Washington and Skeptical Science founder John Cook. Given that I am a longtime reader of (and occasional contributor to) Skeptical Science, I didn’t expect to find much in this book that was new to me. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Right from [...]
Harmony: a New Way of Looking at our World
Posted in Reviews, tagged agriculture, architecture, biomimicry, climate change, communication, education, environment, global warming, harmony, health, nature, prince charles, prince of wales, science, sustainability, uk on February 7, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Even if you don’t have any intention of reading the new book by Prince Charles of Wales, it’s almost worth buying a copy just to admire it. Harmony: a New Way of Looking at our World is beautifully bound, with thick, glossy pages full of photographs that take you on a visual journey of the natural [...]
The Unofficial Climate Change Book Awards
Posted in Reviews, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, communication, copenhagen, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, journalism, media, politics, science, Stephen Harper, sustainability, united states on January 19, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal As an aspiring climate scientist, I have read dozens of books about climate change over the past few years. Here are my all-time favourites, which I present with Unofficial Climate Change Book Awards. (Unfortunately, the prizes consist entirely of bragging rights.) Best Analysis of Future Scenarios Climate Wars, by Gwynne Dyer View [...]
Merchants of Doubt
Posted in Reviews, tagged acid rain, bill nierenberg, climate change, cold war, conway, DDT, denial, environment, frederick seitz, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, media, oreskes, ozone depletion, politics, robert jastrow, s. fred singer, science, SDI, secondhand smoke, smoking, star wars, tobacco, united states on January 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I waited a long time to read this book – in retrospect, too long. I have long been a fan of Naomi Oreskes; I believe she is a brilliant and sensible scientist with a compelling way with words. On the other hand, nothing depresses me more quickly than reading about those who deliberately spread confusion [...]
Storms of my Grandchildren
Posted in Reviews, tagged al gore, cap and dividend, cap and trade, carbon dioxide, carbon tax, climate change, climate sensitivity, communication, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, james hansen, nasa, obama, permian extinction, PETM, politics, risk management, science, united states on December 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Christmas. Here’s a book I’ve been meaning to review for a while. The worst part of the recent book by NASA climatologist James Hansen is, undoubtedly, the subtitle. The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity – really? That doesn’t sound [...]
Snowball Earth
Posted in Reviews, Science Lessons, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, communication, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hoffman, ice age, journalism, science, snowball earth, walker on July 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Of all the books I have read about climate change, Snowball Earth, by Gabrielle Walker, is definitely one of the best – and it’s not even about the current climate change. Part of what makes it so good is the style of writing. As the Los Angeles Times said about her later book, An Ocean [...]
A Quick Poll
Posted in Musings, Reviews, tagged climate change, communication, credibility, environment, global warming, IPCC, literature, media, science, weart on July 4, 2010 | 23 Comments »
I really enjoy books about climate change. When you’re as new to the subject as I am, they’re a great way to catch up on what is now common knowledge in the climate science community, and thus hasn’t been discussed recently in the peer-reviewed literature. I suppose I could also read the entire IPCC report [...]
The Discovery of Global Warming
Posted in Reviews, tagged arrhenius, carbon dioxide, climate change, credibility, environment, fourier, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, ice age, IPCC, journalism, keeling, media, politics, risk management, science, weart on May 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A common remark I make about climate change books I like is that “it wasn’t like a textbook”. I like non-fiction books that I can carry around and read cover-to-cover just like I would a novel. I like them to draw me in and catch my interest as if they were a suspenseful PD James [...]
Uncertain Science….Uncertain World
Posted in Reviews, tagged climate change, credibility, debate, education, geology, global warming, journalism, media, pollack, science, uncertainty, united states on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Several months ago, I wrote a generally favourable review of geophysicist Dr. Henry Pollack’s newest book, A World Without Ice. So when I came across his earlier book, which was about the nature of the scientific process - something that fascinates me – I couldn’t wait to read it. Uncertain Science, Uncertain World is about [...]
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