DWD's Reviews

From a former environmentalist teacher, now a conservationist steward I once proudly called myself an environmentalist. Now I am a conservationist and a steward. I believe some wild spaces should be saved. I recycle (A lot!). I coordinate my school's paper recycling program. I own several of those little fluorescent bulbs and I use them every day. I don't spray chemicals all over my yard. I don't dump motor oil down the drain. I pick up garbage when I walk the dog. I go camping. I go to the Earth Day celebration in downtown Indianapolis because it's a great place to get information on clean-up events and they give away free trees! I also love it when they assume that I must be an ultra-liberal just to be there! Now that I've said all of this, let me say that I am not an environmentalist. I used to be. Way back when, when I first started teaching, I showed movies to my kids in world geography that said the world as we know it is going to end by the year 2000....

Well-stated from this former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. Roy Spencer presents a well-stated and reasoned defense for the "deniers" of global warming, although he does not deny the globe is warming, he denies that we can definitively lay it at the feet of hydrocarbon emissions. The greatest strength of Climate Confusion is its readability - Spencer has a great sense of humor and lets it shine throughout - he reminds me of Dave Barry quite a bit. Spencer cites the difficulty in creating computer-based climate models and the difficulty in understanding all of the relationships between the myriad of variables that come together to create the ill-understood phenomenon we call weather. For example, as has been oft-noted by Al Gore, carbon dioxide levels have risen in the last century. Spencer notes that we have no idea what that exactly means for the global climate. Will water vapor increase due to an increase in global temperatures? Will the s...

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." -Barack Obama Nov. 2008 Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America is Chris Horner's third book in a series of books about the global warming "crisis" is a mind-numbingly well-researched expose on the Obama administration's plan for fighting global warming and creating thousands and thousands of green jobs. Horner is an attorney and knows well the value of research. He uses hundreds of direct quotes from Obama, his appointees, members of Congress and members of environmental groups to show you where the administration has moved and is likely to continue moving. Even more damning is the knowledge that many members of the EU have already taken this actions and they are now backing off from them. Christopher C. Horner Horner's impeccable research is so strong, so deep (more than 800 endnotes fill more than 8...