Are there any good books about climate change out there? I want to observe Earth Day by learning more.?
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Yes. read "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science" by Tom Bethell. You will be amazed with truths about climate change and environmentalism.\nSome examples are: "Environmentalists not so long ago believe the earth was cooling"\nEarth day is a ridculous holiday. Go outside and have some fun.
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If you can call a 1 degree change in 100 years significant, go ahead. The truth is nobody knows why or what is causing warming. The earth has heated up and cooled down many times. No matter, its just good policy to take care of the environment we live in without being extremists or gloom and doom profits.
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"Almost Everyone's Guide to Science" is a great basic book for a range of science topics.\n"The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene is more advanced, but wonderful as well.
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NEVER! This year alone I've bought 8 or 9 books, can't recall. I'm currently reading 1 biography, 1 psychology, 1 marketing, and am always reading management books. I like many others enjoy the sanctity of a good read. Staying focused is so much easier with books - no message alerts, and you can turn the phone off. The Internet is a useful tool, but ultimately, books are a 'reality', something you can hold, see, and feel. You can also give them as gifts - the Internet, not quite, not yet anyway. Plus there'll be a load of librarians out of work without books. lol. One last thing, what happens when the power goes out? Technology stops, the sun comes up and there is light - the simple things are often the best. Cheers. L
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I watched a show on the history channel last night and it talked about "darkening" From what I heard it still balances nature. The program said without "darkening" the "global warming" rate would increase 5-10 fold. The whole concept is interesting but I'd need to hear more.\n\nJason
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These references would be a good start.  Really, any old organic textbook would be the best.
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If you read enough "studies", you will probably be as confused as everybody else is about global warming.  There is no real answer to such a question, because nobody knows what causes it, or what will end it.  \n        Just enjoy the changes that happen to our world every day unless you choose to NOT enjoy them.  Either way, changes happen... changes that mankind only can report...not influence very much.  Our news media, when there is little else to talk about, gets on a roll, and makes mountains out of molehills.  \n        "Global warming" happens to be in the crosshairs of their reporting machinery at THIS moment...it will be something else later on.
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here are a few internet sites where you can get more information on global warming\n\n- http://www.climatehotmap.org/\n\n- http://www.globalwarming.org/\n\n- http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1848/global.html\n\n- http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/
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"A Random Walk on Wall Street", by Burton Malkiel  is a great book. Also read these websites if you are thinking of day trading:
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Check this out, it's awsome:\nhttp://www.4c-foresee.com/
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The earth has been going through cyclical warming and cooling for millenia.  It has only been in the last 70 years or so that appropriate methods for data collection have been available.  It is more hype to get government dollars than pure science.  The models that have been developed can't even predict weather patterns that already happened with known data, let alone what will happen in the future.
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Science explains Global warming. More storms, bigger storms, carbin dioxide levels, soon crops may burn up before they grow, rain forest desease may spread, Gulf stream may stop, In Our Lifetime.\nIs a good read, go see... Times ARE changing.
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Global warming\n\nhttp://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/\n\nhttp://climatecrisis.org/\n\nhttp://www.globalwarming.org/\n\nhttp://www.davidsuzuki.org/\n\nhttp://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/\n\nhttp://www.climatehotmap.org/\n\nWEBSITES ON WEATHER AND CLIMATE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/weather.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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For a long time, people around the Earth have been spending lots and lots of money to send robotic equipment to study other planets in our Solar System.  Several have sent back such surprising results - oh, the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, and the colors of Neptune and Pluto!\n\nSome of the results also describe to us what the 'greenhouse effect" causes on other planets.  Unfortunately, when we see the results here on Earth, we presume that such a thing cannot happen here.\n\nWell, it can, and it does, and it has.\n\nFor rasons dealing largely with control of existing industrial resources, cost of investment, and just plain political power, people have made quite a campaign out of denying that global warming is taking place.  Their talk largely just adds to the hot air in the atmosphere.\n\nThe last Great Ice Age was more than 20 millenia ago.  Scientists studying that epoch say that carbon dioxide, particulates in the atmosphere, and a periodic change in the angle of the Earth's relationship to the sun all had a role to play - as perhaps did a major cycle of sunspot activity.  (That's just a guess by solar specialists but they like the idea a lot.)\n\nHowever, the physical evidence from the Great Ice Age is pretty conclusive.  Atmospheric components in ice left over from those days tell the tale.  And one of the great triggers of the last major Ice Age was particulate matter in the atmosphere - what some scientists decades ago warned would occur in a "nuclear winter" after The Bomb went off.  Everywhere.\n\nCarbon dioxide was relatively low in the atmospheric content - both during and at the end of the Great Ice Age.\n\nOne of the best arguments in favor of the effects of carbon dioxide on "global warming" is what we can tell happened to the planet when it got COLDER.  Besides various physical and naural events such as tiny alterations in the incidence of the sun's rays on the planet (that is, the angle at which they struck the atmosphere), we can track the history of stuff in the air that changed things.\n\nIn the pre-Industrial era, the only times that would happen were when NATURAL EVENTS took place - such as immense volcanic eruptions.  Those events combined with a periodic "wobble" in the Earth to create the last Little Ice Age, which affected Europe from around the time of Elizabeth I through the American Revolution.  \n\nSo it is appropriate to ask questions about the NATURAL events that might contribute now to global warming and the shrinking of ice caps.  But it is inappropriate to state that the byproducts of industrialized activities of humans, on a scale never before seen on the planet, cannot influence global weather and atmospheric conditions.\n\nYES, this is a big planet.  Yes, the forces at work are so massive they dwarf the puny efforts of humans - just ask any ship's captain, whether of a supertanker or a dinghy.  But NO, there has never before in all of history been anything equal to the cumulative effects of what humans do across the planet daily to spew heat, gases, and pollutants into the air through UNNATURAL means.  And for the cynics, let's remember that if in olden days all the dinosaurs on Earth had all farted at the same time, the methane they produced would not equal one day's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from industry today.  So leave that alone, once and for all.\n\nPart of the problem is that people think the byproducts of their actions are UNNATURAL.  In the sense that they result from human industrial functions, yes, they are not direct products of nature.  But in the sense that thse are an element of our natural world and we must see the emissions affecting that world, they ARE a part of "Nature."\n\nThe ONLY DIFFERENCE is that as a result we humans actually do own some sort of control over nature.  We can change the way that we influence natural processes.  And by the way - the various global attempts to do so wou
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If you really want a global overview and want to get a handle on weather causes, you should delve into the Weather Blog at http://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nDo not forget to pull up the urls in the Blog Roll and the ones that appear in the articles and in the blast.  Save the ones you find interesting.\n\nThe Atmosphere and the Oceans are intimately related weatherwise.  If you are not interested in that relationshi;p, you will never get a handle on what you want.\n\nThere are lots of answers to Weather Questions in my Answers.  If you start clicking things off a little at a time the complete picture will start forming eventually.\n\nMuch easier to do in the ara of Satellite Views over the Internet than it was 40 years ago.
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Ok, I don't know why everyone has to be so rude. I wrote a paper on global warming and it was a real bear, so I feel your pain. It's not the easy issue you'd think, especially if you're trying to examine both sides of the issue. The media treats global warming like it's just a fact, while in reality global warming is a theory, one with many facets and holes. I'm not saying that it's not correct, but there are many unanswered questions. \n\nHere's some real help for you:\nhttp://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html\nhttp://www.globalwarming.org/\nhttp://www.climatehotmap.org/\nhttp://weather.about.com/cs/globalwarming/index.htm\n\nPapers worthy of reading:\n\nBliese, John R. E., (2001) Facts and Myths about Global Warming: A Conservative Perspective. The Green Elephant Magazine, Summer Edition, 2001\n\nHoughton, Sir John (1997). Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.\n\nIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), (2001). Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, Technical Summary.\n\nSinger, Fred (2003). Global Warming: Fact or Myth. Environmental Defense, CapMAG, Washington, D.C.\n\n\nWhen you get around to finishing your paper, check out www.wordtechs.com for help proofing and polishing it to an "A."\n\nBest wishes,\n~Tia~\nYahoo Brainiac\nhttp://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html
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Many scientists believe that we are actually heading toward a global ice-age as opposed to a global warming.  \n\nAlthough a work of FICTION Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" provides evidence to support this.\n\nI suggest reading it (it's FIRST AND FOREMOST a good FICTION book, but is supported by genuine theories and statistics that ARE IN FACT from "Science" and "Nature" magazines, the worlds fore-most scientific mags)\n\nTo be honest I don't think we're experiencing anything unnatural about our environment right now.