OT -- recommend a book on history of Earth climate

I am running out of books to read, would anyone recommend an honest and impartial book on the history of Earth climate. Thanks.

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Ignoramus25548
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You'd be better off reading the history of MIDDLE Earth! Probably less partial than anything else you would find. What do you like to read? I have to take truckloads of books to the second hand bookstore often just to get out from under.

Reply to
Tom Gardner

He's probably got several books sponsored by the coal and oil industry that explain how none of man's activities can have a negative effect on the earth's climate. They're right alongside the books sponsored by the tobacco industry detailing the beneficial attributes of using tobacco products.

Hawke

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Hawke

I like history books of all sorts, especially WWII, reading about inventions or inventors, economics etc.

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Ignoramus25548

"The Devil's Triangle", by Charles Berlitz (sorry, can't recall the ISBN). It's not exactly what you are after, but the last part of the book does delve into some of the catastrophic climate events in the Earth's history.

Al

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Al Porter

I also enjoy such but my preference is fiction, SF, techno, adventure, fantasy, and epics.

Reply to
Tom Gardner

Al, I checked it out, it is not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks.

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Reply to
Ignoramus2170

I have nothing you would enjoy or understand...no pictures.

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Tom Gardner

Whoops... Make that "The Dragon's Triangle", although I think he wrote both..

Al

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Al Porter

NP, anytime :)

Al

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Al Porter

Iggy,have you ever read "The Cadillac Desert" (Marc Reisner)? Not what you're looking for, but very good book about govt, history, and water projects out West. I consider it one of the better books I've ever read.

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Gary Brady

Interesting. I may buy it. I added it to my wish list. I am right now interested in a book on history of ice ages, ice caps melting, that sort of thing.

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Ignoramus2170

Have you seen this yet?

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John Ringo is one of my favorite authors btw...

Gunner

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Gunner

One of the latest bestsellers I've been hearing about is:

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (July 10, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0312347294 ISBN-13: 978-0312347291 Amazon $14.97 / $24.95

The author has been making the circuit and the book sounds interesting. He has been on Diane Rehm, Living on Earth and I believe Market Place. See:

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If you have a fat pipe to use these may be interesting to listen to and give you a feel for the book.

I'll be waiting for it to turn up at the used book sales myself...

Reply to
Leon Fisk

Leon, thanks, I just bought it based on your recommendation.

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Reply to
Ignoramus2170

When you get through reading it shoot me an email (if you remember) and let me know what you think. The author spent some time doing his research for it and claimed he was trying to keep it unbiased (shrug).

I hope I didn't steer you wrong :)

Reply to
Leon Fisk

Will do.

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Ignoramus2170

It's hard to read curled up with my laptop and I dog-ear the screen.

Reply to
Tom Gardner

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:04:42 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Gary Brady quickly quoth:

I loaned my copy of that to a friend before I even read it and he never gave it back. That's only Colorado River/CA history, though.

-- Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. --Jesse Lee Bennett

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Larry Jaques

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:54:33 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

I just finished James P. Hogan's _Code of the Lifemaker_ last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wiped away tears of laughter several times while reading it. Humans land on Saturn's moon, Titan, where a band of evolved robeings (robots with feelings) herd their little machinery animals around. What a hoot of a read for a metalworker. Highly recommended.

I still don't have a library here so I'm buying large lots of SciFi books from eBay for pennies on the dollar. ($16 for 33, including media mail shipping)

-- Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. --Jesse Lee Bennett

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Larry Jaques

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