Showing posts with label gobal warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gobal warming. Show all posts
19 December, 2009
Global What?
I do wonder as I sit here looking at the weather station gauge sitting at minus 4 C and think what global warming?
13 November, 2009
State of fear
I have just finished reading State of fear by Michael Crichton, and as I said in an earlier blog the book to me was more the authors attempt to say it's not the fault of nations on the Earth for the way things are and the way that the worlds climate is changing.
In fact one thing I have taken away from the book is that global warming is a theory not a law or a fact its just a theory.
The book itself I think suffered as it was difficult to get lost in the make believe world when every so many pages or so there would be a footnote to a real world link on real information about what the characters in the book happened to be talking about at that time.
for entertainment I would only go as far as to say low to medium because of the real world stuff getting in the way of the make believe stuff.
In fact one thing I have taken away from the book is that global warming is a theory not a law or a fact its just a theory.
The book itself I think suffered as it was difficult to get lost in the make believe world when every so many pages or so there would be a footnote to a real world link on real information about what the characters in the book happened to be talking about at that time.
for entertainment I would only go as far as to say low to medium because of the real world stuff getting in the way of the make believe stuff.
07 November, 2009
Reading Now 5
I have started to read a Michael Crichton book called State of Fear which I think may have been one of the last books he wrote before he died.
So far I am getting the feeling that the book is at the part that I have got to just a mouthpiece for Michael to show how clever he is in proving that there is no such thing as global warming.
he does give lots of real links to the papers that he has found to prove his point. The trouble is I picked up this book to be entertained not lectured at. If I had wanted to read a science book then I would have brought one on the subject.
So it goes without saying that so far the story has not been to me very entertaining.
if the whole idea of the book is to stop and make you think about the global warming theory and that not everything you see in print and on the telly might not be as correct as you should think, then Michael has to me succeeded in making think about the global warming theory.
One thing that I have taken on board so far is that what ever is going on it is not black or white its a grey colour as there is so much information that points both ways in the argument.
So I shall continue to read the book and hope that Michael does not short change me, and will give me a story and some entertainment, if a bit of learning is thrown into the mix I don't mind as long as I get to be entertained
So far I am getting the feeling that the book is at the part that I have got to just a mouthpiece for Michael to show how clever he is in proving that there is no such thing as global warming.
he does give lots of real links to the papers that he has found to prove his point. The trouble is I picked up this book to be entertained not lectured at. If I had wanted to read a science book then I would have brought one on the subject.
So it goes without saying that so far the story has not been to me very entertaining.
if the whole idea of the book is to stop and make you think about the global warming theory and that not everything you see in print and on the telly might not be as correct as you should think, then Michael has to me succeeded in making think about the global warming theory.
One thing that I have taken on board so far is that what ever is going on it is not black or white its a grey colour as there is so much information that points both ways in the argument.
So I shall continue to read the book and hope that Michael does not short change me, and will give me a story and some entertainment, if a bit of learning is thrown into the mix I don't mind as long as I get to be entertained
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