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Summary: Keep your night job!
Review: Baloney does not stick to paper very well. Not since Joseph Goebbels and the "big lie" has there been such a gaseous expulsion of fairy tales masquerading as science. Beam me up Scotty!
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Summary: While controversial . . .
Review: because of its scientific content as presented by non-scientists, I nevertheless found the book very informative and entertaining. It reads like a thriller but the subject matter is rooted in geological fact. The authors have managed to distill scientific data into a readable and enjoyable presentation of the onset of the next ice age. Other reviewers have been highly critical. However, I suggest one read the book less academically and more vernacularly. It's not intended to be a textbook, but an attention-getter.
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Summary: Excellent writing; thoughtful conclusions; a few flaws
Review: Very well written and organized volume dealing with the possible threat of dramatic weather changes that may culminate in the onset of a new ice age. Drawing on new research that indicates similar destructive weather changes have occured in the (geologically) recent past, the authors put together a very readable work that expresses their concerns -- that the environmental and meteorological conditions may be right for another such event.Much of the writing style, especially in the chapter-leading fictional accounts, reminds me of Strieber's earlier work, WAR DAY -- a superior example of detailed and searching speculative fiction. A personal frustration for me, as a reader, was that the references used as support for the issues presented in the book were not footnoted -- very difficult to try to hunt out the material for further study. It was this minor flaw that lead to the 4-star rating; had research been more clearly identified, the rating would have been 5-star. The work is clearly speculative and written for a popular audience. Fortunately, authors are still allowed to think independently and draw conclusions from available data, and Bell & Streiber have made a credible contribution to current speculations on environmental change.
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Summary: Oh come on.....
Review: This authors mix wild and implausible speculation with pseudo-science to produce a book that, if anybody read it, would set the environmentalists back ten years. We just have to hope that few fall into the trap of reading it, like I did.
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Summary: Very interesting but................
Review: I am glad I borrowed the book instead of buying it. The authors substantiate nothing. This book should be put on a shelf labeled Speculative Fiction.
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Summary: A superstorm of quotations, borrowed facts and arguments
Review: This book is a superstorm of quotations, borrowed facts and arguments to cause havoc in the world of authorship and readership. The authors keep on throwing out pre-historic stories like facts to jumble the mind as if they were the scientific authorities themselves. They elaborate on conjectural things, of the distant past, that have no bearings on our everyday life. These archaeological and paleontological relics, being repeatedly recounted in the text, are means to satisfy evolving theories and assumptions - not the confirmation of what had really transpired since there must have been many other hidden variables. Global warming is a recent phenomenon uniquely caused by modern civilization. It is a waste of coverage to delve into the ancient past not just thousands but also millions of years ago in order to drive in some similarity and relevancy with the present. Summing up, this book bears a misleading title to beguile people genuinely concerned with environmental issues by inundating them with torrents of data without offering uniquely original solutions except some words of complacent encouragement in the last two chapters (22 & 23). On one hand, the authors reuse and recycle others ideas and findings; but on the other hand, instead of reduction to clarity, they indulge in superfluous redundancy. Hopefully, by discarding the irrelevancy and redundancy, this book can be abridged to a few chapters from the original 25 - prologue and epilogue included. Notwithstanding, I would beseech the public to spend their money on related books by the scientific communities.
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Summary: The best psudo-scientific journal out there!
Review: After reading this book, I just have to say: The global harmonic flux ratios contained in this journal are profoundly diametrical in their rotational vector dynamics. The Storm's projected quantum structure, which falls within an ionic matrix, is well described in terms of dimensionally layered mechanics. The book scared me so much that I plan to construct a large subterranean bunker with self-contained waist and air reclamation systems and enough food to last my family and I for ten years.
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Summary: Art's "other" Y2K
Review: I love Art dearly, but after reading this book you'll see why he wins the "Snuffed Candle" award from the Skeptical Inquirer . . . for dishonest reporting. I don't think Art means any harm though. He's a good guy, but he's exceptionally gullible, and he needs to gather all the facts before jumping to his conclusions. Please don't rush out and buy more of Art's products and survival gear. This is another version of Art's Y2K, and I dread the thought of so many people going broke and scaring themselves silly over this flawed reporting. If you check the actual weather stats, with a real, experienced weather man, you'll learn a lot of interesting facts that don't fit in with Art's global disaster.
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Summary: When Hell Freezes Over
Review: Another Strieber style book to make you feel helpless. In the 80's we were being examined by "blue doctors" and there was nothing we could do about it. And now the masses of drivers in SUV's/Caravans with a child for every seat are sending us us to the next ice age. And the only place to go and survive this catastrophe is Texas. A true living hell on earth...
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Summary: Cheesy
Review: I sped read this 255 page book at an O'Hare newstand in about 20 minutes. I don't disagree with the main tenents that our current lifestyle may be endangering the atmosphere and that we should pay attention to it or live out the consequences. However, the whole playing out of the destruction of NYC (why does NYC always get the brunt of apopalyptic pap from the movies?), Paris eating cats, the British Royal family fleeing to Scotland and 'never being heard from again' and posing Austin, Texas (heaven help us, my pardons to the Texans) as the only place that will be inhabitable is pure cornball. I'm sorry, but who the hell are these people? Some of their theories are a bit unfounded. If, as they say, we are going to be the instrument of our own destruction because of our mass logging, polluting, etc., how then do they explain what happened 10,000 years ago? I don't think the Neanderthals were out driving cars and using hairspray. As for the end of the dinosaurs, as far as I can remember, dinosaurs were not driving cars. The only gas emmisions being produced would have come from dinosaur farting, but that would take a helluva a lot of methane to trigger an ice age, Brontosauruses notwithdstanding! I don't recall the Mayans, Hittites, Sumerians, Egyptians, Babylonians and other ancient civilazations having the technologies to produce gases that would have brought on the flood. I am more inclined to believe the general theory that asteriods from space hitting the earth at these times caused disruption. I don't recall the authors saying much about this. Their celestial expertise is limited to astrology which is fine for diversion but still unproven as a science. What gives? Either I missed a big point during this speed read (I doubt it) or these people are the hysteria stokers of today. Face it people, when our time is up it is up. Stop worrying about what the hell is going to happen tomorrow. Be kind to each other and kind to the earth as much as you can.
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