Author : Steve Goreham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9780982499634
"Is mankind destroying earth's climate? Learn the real story about climate change"--Back jacket.
Author : Steve Goreham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780982499627
Using figures, cartoons, and whimsical sidebars, Steve Goreham describes our crazy world, which is far down the primrose path of global warming fantasy. Contrary to popular consensus, global warming is natural and cars are innocent. But this book is not short on science. Goreham uses charts, graphs, and references to dozens of scientific papers to support his arguments. He shows that icecap melting, stronger storms, polar bear extinction, and many other climate fears are unfounded.
Author : Mike Hulme
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1509556176
The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear very little about: the rise of climatism. Too many social, political and ecological problems facing the world today – from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the management of wildfires – quickly become climatized, explained with reference to ‘a change in the climate’. When complex political and ethical challenges are so narrowly framed, arresting climate change is sold as the supreme political challenge of our time and everything else becomes subservient to this one goal. In this far-sighted analysis, Mike Hulme reveals how climatism has taken hold in recent years, becoming so pervasive and embedded in public life that it is increasingly hard to resist it without being written off as a climate denier. He confronts this dangerously myopic view that reduces the condition of the world to the fate of global temperature or the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to the detriment of tackling serious issues as varied as poverty, liberty, biodiversity loss, inequality and international diplomacy. We must not live as though climate alone determines our present and our future.
Author : Dr Sandor Balogh
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2020-10-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781631297489
Newton's Laws apply to mechanics and material objects and Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine, a Belgian scientist, the 20th Century's Newton, gave science a new, reality-oriented direction by developing thermodynamics and the irreversible, 'dissipative process' principle.In the debate about climate change, there are the environmental activist and the skeptics. This book represents a third position: explains energy and the h energy quantum and applies the proper science, thermodynamics and Prigogine's theories to climate.Next, it considers the Earth's self-defense system against over-heating, based on entropy production of weather events, but no obvious protection exists against overcooling. While Russia and China are building wave and tide power-plants, we rely on solar and wind energy, that depends on solar activity.So, the climate issue becomes a national security issue in a cooling cycle. Therefore, he advocates the increased use of the non-polluting tidal-, wave- and hydro-power, and even nuclear power, to generate electricity.Balogh discusses the actors of the environmental movement and the relationship between globalism and environmentalism. Finally, an important part of the book is the discussion, who benefits from destroying industry and from the riots, and looting and puts the climate issue into global and apocalyptical context. Sandor Balogh, Ph. D. (NYU), was a college professor, teaching social sciences and philosophy. After retirement, he was promoted to Professor Emeritus rank. In retirement, he is getting a self-education in climatology and based on Aristoteles' hylomorphism theory, applies thermodynamics to the climate: the earth has a self-defense system that protects it from overheating by turning heat-energy into entropy. He has also re-written Einstein's E=mc2 formula into E + entropy=mc2 to include entropy as a by-product. Among "clean energy" sources the author suggests to use tidal, wave, hydro, and nuclear power sources as other nations, including Russia and China. They are essential for national security and the future of his grandchildren's generation once the solar spots are reduced and we will face a colder climate. Finally, he puts the climate issue into global and apocalyptical context. Dr. Balogh also participates in Hungarian-American politics and enjoys his grandchildren's company.
Author : Alison Stone
Publisher : Polity
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745638821
This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; whether there is anything that all women have in common; and the nature of birth and its centrality to human existence. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy shows how feminist thinking on these and related topics has developed since the 1960s. The book also explains how feminist philosophy relates to the many forms of feminist politics. The book provides clear, succinct and readable accounts of key feminist thinkers including de Beauvoir, Butler, Gilligan, Irigaray, and MacKinnon. The book also introduces other thinkers who have influenced feminist philosophy including Arendt, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan. Accessible in approach, this book is ideal for students and researchers interested in feminist philosophy, feminist theory, women's studies, and political theory. It will also appeal to the general reader.
Author : Bjorn Lomborg
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1541647483
An “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world. Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education. False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong -- and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
Author : Constantin Cranganu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1527572595
This book is both a plea and an invitation to consider climate change from a multi-faceted perspective, taking into account (geo)physical, social, cultural, psychological, religious, mythological, economic, and judicial viewpoints, among others. As such, it will serve as a useful and necessary guide towards a better understanding of our own mental structures and systems of preferences, ideologies, or beliefs.
Author : Mike Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000413233
Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future. In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in today’s world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers, written from the perspective of a geographer whose career work on climate change has drawn across the full range of academic disciplines. The book highlights the work of leading geographers in relation to climate change; examples, illustrations, and case study boxes are drawn from different cultures around the world, and questions are posed for use in class discussions. The book is written as a student text, suitable for disciplinary and inter-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses that embrace climate change from within social science and humanities disciplines. Science students studying climate change on inter-disciplinary programmes will also benefit from reading it, as too will the general reader looking for a fresh and distinctive account of climate change.
Author : Steve Goreham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780982499641
Today, businesses are trapped in the green box of sustainable development. Academics, government leaders, public opinion, and thousands of laws and regulations demand the adoption of sustainability. In response, companies spend billions on renewable energy, carbon credits, biofuels, and other green policies in an effort to counter the coming environmental apocalypse. But a look at data and trends shows that the ideology of environmental sustainable development is based on false concepts. Population growth is slowing, nations continue to reduce air and water pollution, climate change is dominated by natural factors, with the effects from human greenhouse emissions are negligible, and societal access to resources continues to grow. Society and business should adopt a policy that is sensibly green, continuing to reduce air and water pollution, but at other policies aimed at stopping global warming and halting hydrocarbon use. These policies do little for Earth's environment. Outside the Green Box is a well-illustrated and amusing look and society's quest to be sustainable, and the resulting misguided policies that provide little benefit for the environment.
Author : Herb Simmens
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1627875085
A Climate Vocabulary of the Future offers a compelling perspective on climate change that breaks down the formidable challenges facing our species and our planet -- rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and an indifferent global populace quietly overwhelmed by the science and inconceivable consequences of inaction. By skillfully explaining -- with humor, brevity, and clarity -- more than four hundred new, as well as often overlooked words and phrases, A Climate Vocabulary of the Future empowers readers with the information they need to both understand and act. For example, readers will learn the importance of dark snow, carbon war criminals, and negative emissions, as well as the background behind deceptively humorous phrases such as frozen chicken syndrome and robin carbon hood tax. Author Herb Simmens also offers many new ideas to inspire action before it is too late to save ourselves from ourselves. Use A Climate Vocabulary of the Future as a reference or as a creative way to learn the many dimensions of climate change. Above all, use it to acquire the words, images, ideas, and actions necessary to thrive in a world increasingly dominated by climate chaos.
