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The A-Z of Global Warming: Climate Change - Fact or Fiction? Kindle Edition

by Simon j Rosser (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

• Fact: The Planet is Warming Up...!

• Latest NASA figures show temperature has increased by 2 Degrees F since 1880...

• 2020 is set to be the warmest year globally, jointly with 2016...

• Sea level is rising by 3.18 mm a year...

• Carbon dioxide levels now stand at 410 PPM (Parts Per Million) and increasing...

• And Arctic sea ice is decreasing by 12% per decade, according to NASA.

Whether you accept that global warming and climate change is caused by humankind or not, The A-Z of Global Warming 2nd Edition will take you on a journey through the world of climate change science and the environment. This Kindle book has been updated since its original publication, complete with hyperlinks that take the reader to news articles and source material!

Confused about climate change and reports in the media? Need clarification of the science? Concerned about the adverse weather conditions that seem to be affecting the Earth at an increasing frequency? This book is for you. A complete A-Z guide on global warming, climate change science and related environmental science, set out in unique A-Z format.

From the Amazon, Biofuels, Carbon Dioxide, Deforestation through to the Weather, Extinction and What You Can Do To Help? Each chapter deals with a specific aspect of global warming and the facts and science involved. The book looks at the effects of climate change and at the primary cause of global warming.

Supplemented with chapter summary bullet points and with all facts obtained from multiple sources, included NASA, NSIDC, IPCC, WWF, The Stern Review this guide is written for the lay person and seasoned climate change crusader alike...

WHAT THE READERS ARE SAYING;

"Did The Job"

"Global Warming Clarified"

"Cuts To The Chase"

"Global Warming In A Nutshell"

"Global Warming Encyclopedia"

"Creative, Inspirational, Educational"

"Outstanding, Simplistic Explanation Of Global Warming"

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"The chapters I have seen amount to a useful simplification in an unusual format of some very complex issues." ----Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG, KCVO

"This is an excellent, witty and imaginative book that looks at climate change through the lens of simplicity without the jargon and scientific detail which so often dogs this subject. It has a humour and tongue in cheek approach which highlights both the importance of the subject, but the need to engage the reader and not fill him or her with a hopeless sense of guilt. Enjoy!" ----Tim Smit CBE Chief Executive of the Eden Project, Cornwall UK.

"helps to make a complex body of factual material accessible... useful to the climate change novice and seasoned eco-crusader alike." ----Law Society Gazette- November 2008

About the Author

Si Rosser is also the author of TIPPING POINT, the first book in the Robert Spire series, IMPACT POINT and MELT ZONE, the third Spire novel. The adventures don't necessarily need to be read in order, but it is preferable. The author is currently working on the fourth Spire thriller - CATACLYSM Of The ANCIENTS, together with apocalyptic thriller, VAPORIZED

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0037KM1HA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schmall World Publishing
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Simon was born in Cardiff, South Wales, UK, in 1968.

When he's not busy with his day job as a lawyer, he is the author of Action-Adventure-thriller novels, predominantly the Robert Spire Action Thrillers, which all have an ecological, historical, science-fiction mystery cataclysmic theme. Think James Bond mixed with Indiana Jones and a bit of environmental / historical facts thrown in for good measure...

Favorite authors include - Ed McBain, James Patterson, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston, Patrick Lee, Michael Grumley, A G Riddle and Clive Cussler.

Favorite movies - Good The Bad and The Ugly, Jaws, Deliverance, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, It's A Wonderful Life, Scarface, Play Misty For Me, Electra-Glide In Blue, The Abyss, Deliverance, Contact, Alien, Predator, Interstellar, The Thing and many others.

Previous Books - THE A-Z OF GLOBAL WARMING - updated 2012 edition, and the Robert Spire Eco-terrorism action-thrillers TIPPING POINT, IMPACT POINT, MELT ZONE, CATACLYSM OF THE ANCIENTS, CRYPTO, and the GALILEO PROJECT SciFi UFO Conspiracy thrillers 1-3. The author is now working oon Spire 9 - THE VANISHED.

The author has also written Sci-fi thrillers, VAPORIZED I AND II and SALIENT, together with stand alone espionage adventure thriller, RED MIST.

All books available in Audiobook and Kindle/ebook format.

If you enjoyed reading any of my books, and have the time, please stop by and leave a Amazon review. It will be much appreciated, thanks. Also please sign up to my newsletter on my website to your FREE copy of Tipping Point and news on other deals and promotions.

For more information, visit the author's website at http://www.sirosserauthor.com

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  • Dallas Fraser
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013
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    it explained what I knew a bit about to a higher level.. now I've got info to debate about with sceptics (although they won't be convinced) easily understood . and liked the links to further information
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  • A. King
    4.0 out of 5 stars Did the job
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2012
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    It gave me some helpful tips for my anthropology paper. However, my instructor was not a fan. She said she found this to be overly bias and too crowded with rhetoric, whatever that means. I got a B so that is all that matters. Thank you Simon for your work. I found it to be helpful.
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  • Marti
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clear and accessible
    Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2014
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    An easy to use explaination of what is coming our way. Good references lend credibility. Good place to start for many.
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  • Hill Country Bob
    2.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and informative
    Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2013
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    Interesting and informative book.

    The basic premiss of the book is that Global Warming is real and it is caused by the actions of man kind. Man kind has been burning more and more carbon based fuels and this has led to the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere from the historic of around 280 ppm or so to about 400 ppm as measured in Hawaii. This increase in CO2 is considered by some to be the cause of the increase in temperature on the earth. The argument is that if we continue to emit CO2 that the earth will continue to warm until we reach a tipping point and there will be run away global warming, and great damage to mankind and the earth, and possibly the extinction of mankind, etc. Since about the turn of the century, there has been no more global warming, the earth has stopped warming up for reasons that are not well understood or documented. No evidence is presented that mankind is the cause of the increase in the earth temperature, and that it is not a naturally occurring event.

    That being said, the author does a good job in addressing a complex topic to a level the should be understandable by the lay person. He deals with many relevant topics in this book.

    *Amazon dealing with trees, plants and their use of CO 2 to grow;
    *Biofuels their forms and uses and whether or not they are really friendly to the earth as the are pluses and minuses; *Carbon Dioxide and where it all goes and how forrest destruction is a factor;
    *Electrical vehicles and transport where he addresses transportation and emissions that are associated;
    *Fossil Fuel definition and where they are used including transportation, homes and industry;
    *Greenhouse Gases where he addresses the different types and their effects;
    *Historical climate change where he looks at some history from the records left in ice cores and other indicators on the earth and what they tell;
    *Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was created by government to look at only narrow issue and reports generated;
    * Jet Trails and cloud formations nad what they mean;
    *Kyoto Protocol signed by many countries in the world. It is interesting that no country who signed met the goals. Only the US who did not sign met the goal in reduction of CO2 mostly due to the use of natural gas in place of coal; *Level of the Oceans and how it is measured, and how much change is projected in coming decades;
    *Milankovitch Cycles which must be understood to understand what they mean to the earth;
    *No More Ice addressing sea ice and its importance;
    *Ocean Thermocline Circulation where the ocean temperatures and water movement are addressed;
    *Population Growth where the earth's population growth and its impact on water, food and temperature are addressed;
    *Quelccaya Ice-Cap where glaciers are addressed;
    *Renewable energy where solar, wind, geothermal, etc are addressed. Nuclear is addressed kind of as an oh by the way. To properly address the energy sources and energy needs for now and the future, hard numbers must be addressed. The hard numbers are not addressed in this book. If they were addressed, nuclear has a lot to recommend it as compact power source, competitively priced and with no CO2 emissions from an operational plant;
    *The Sun and solar cycles, sun spots and its role which is very complex and contains many nuances is addressed; *Temperature where the earth's current and prior temperature are addressed;
    *Unconvinced is where arguments are assembled which he finds convincing and believes everyone should;
    *Vectors for Disease where mosquito borne diseases which he believes are affected by global warming are addressed. This is not a strong part of the book as other people have shown mosquito borne diseases are not tied directly to the temperature;
    *Weather effects, statistics, sea temperature, hurricanes are addressed. It should be noted that the number of hurricanes and their strength are not increasing in recent years;
    *Xtinction is where he addresses extinction of life on earth in the past. The effect of an asteroid impacting the earth is addressed;
    *You Can Help is where the author gets into addressing things that readers can do to mitigate the production of CO2 etc. This issues are small ball that people can do to minimize their individual CO2 footprint and usage;
    *Zero Hour is where he pitches the paradigm shift on energy required.

    All in all an interesting and informative book. It seems to me that based on what he believes and argues in this book that he would be a enthusiastic supporter of moving all electricity generation from coal to nuclear, either uranium or thorium for base power in the long term. However, this is not addressed. In the shorter time period, supporting the use of natural gas which only generates about half the CO2 as coal in generating electricity would seem to be attractive to him. Somehow, we need to provide cheap and plentiful energy for everyone in the world. This include those who have adequate electricity, and those who have little or none in the world.
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  • Alan D. Eastman
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but could be better organized
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2016
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    Very interesting, but the alphabetical organization is not especially satisfying. It's difficult to progress from one area to another with the topics scrambled.
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  • Gregory John Simmons
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2016
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    great
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  • Tyler R. Lemburg
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not very scientific
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2013
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    I was looking for a non-biased book discussing the science of global warming, and one that would display, in understandable terms, the current climate science. First of all, this book is not written by a scientist. The author is a lawyer who cites his ability to pore through documents as enough to write a treatment on them, summarizing global warming. If you have any scientific background at all, I would stay away from this book. The author goes so far as to say that "carbon dioxide, or CO2, is a gas comprised of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms," then cites this fact from Wikipedia.

    Only buy this book if you have no science background, and want to get a very basic, top-level primer into what global warming actually is. The rhetoric and explanations are not meant for those who know what they're talking about.
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  • Emappeal
    4.0 out of 5 stars Creative, Inspirational, Educational
    Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2008
    Format: Paperback
    Mr. Rosser's passionate and "ordinary person" approach to this subject is refreshing. He explains concepts of global warming in plain terms and the key points at the end of each chapter are very helpful.
    Evidently, the author is also the artist. The drawings throughout the book are very appealing and nearly tell the story all on their own.

    The book is just the right length and has nice feel to it. With so many books currently available on this subject, this one stands out as a favorite.
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  • Kkat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2013
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    I have read this book for my science project and anything I needed I found in this book. Excellent source of information. I would buy more science book from this author !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Philip Stevenson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Clear Facts about our Impact on Our Planet
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2020
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    Clear facts documenting the changes to our planet, well worth a read. Very informative.
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