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1.Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by: James Lovelock September 28, 2000
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I read this book sometime ago and is impacted me significantly as it has with many others. I enjoyed the explanation of the huge organism (Earth) that is self- regulating. I also enjoyed that Lovelock points out that we humans are part of the environment and belong here. We will produce waste. Having said that, any system can overload. Thus, we need to be good stewards of our planet. As the astronauts left the earth in the 1960's and headed towards the moon they looked back at our planet and did not see borders or countries. They saw the earth as a single unit...beautiful and fragile. It rotated on an invisible string in the blackness of night. It affected many of the astronauts profoundly. The ... Read More:

2.Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by: Mark Lynas February 04, 2008
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For crying out loud, why don't we all open our mouths and swallow whatever rot the 'IPCC' feed us. There are so many flaws with this book that can only be seen as propoganda aimed at people who cannot think for themselves. Yes, global warming is almost certainly occurring but it has been blown out of all proportion and all to benefit propositions made by the government. (Carbon taxes to name but one, however that's a whole different kettle of fish.) Look at the End-Permian extinction. An approximated rise in temperature of 5 degrees Celcius is believed to have wiped out the vast majority of terrestrial and marine life. Do you really think this took a century?! Evidence pointing to the Permo-Triassic extinction has been locked away in stratigraphy - the thickness ... Read More:

3.Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning by: George Monbiot June 07, 2007
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I think that Heat is unnecessarily alarmist. Asking for a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030 is simply silly. Monbiot's suggestions about how to go about it are very interesting and are what gives the book its merit. Energy resources are finite and should be conserved; my problem with Heat is that Monbiot has tacked his thesis onto the Global Warming bandwagon but without providing the science. Chapter 1 suggests that we all subscribe to the theory of man made global warming but, since he clearly feels the science to be a 'given', he declines to provide more than a few throwaway remarks. Chapter 2 is given over to 'climate change deniers'. The usual suspects from the Daily Mail and Exxon, but Monbiot does not seem to feel the need to do more than mock their intellectual inadequacies. ... Read More:

4.The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth by: James Lovelock September 28, 2000
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I have just heard James Lovelock interviewed on the radio. He is an extremely clear, insightful and original scientist who doesn't deserve the kind of patronisation he has been given here. His findings are not 'weird', he does not presume to have 'proved' anything via science and it's not as if he wrote this book as light reading for train journeys. I myself am going to buy it, read it, and possibly review it at a later date.

5.The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth: Our Changing Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by: Tim Flannery May 03, 2007
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I am relatively new to literature regarding the environment and matters of sustainability, so only have a limited perspective on the topic, but I have to say this book is the most influential piece of work I have ever read. Tim Flannery does an amazing job of educating the reader (which includes non-scientific folk like myself) on the current state of the environment, how it managed to get to the state in which it's in and where it's heading. If I was asked which book, out of everything I have ever read, would I recommend everyone read it would be "The Weather Makers". I know how cliche that sounds but if everyone did read this book and used the knowledge acquired in their everyday life then the world would be a far better place for us all. If you're searching for a ... Read More:

6.Gaia: medicine for an ailing planet by: James Lovelock May 15, 2005
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If you spend your entire life investigating and writing the same theme it ought to be good, even if you are were a bit of a thicky. If you had a bit of nous it should be wonderful. This book is wonderful in the S. Johnson's definition of the word. Lovelock's book is very easy to understand and beautifully illustrated with large pastel coloured graphics of a children's natural history book. It should appeal to the interested child too, even when they will not understand most of the text, they will understand the theme and by association "subliminally" get the learning. I think I remember Lovelock saying in an interview, many years ago, that he learnt a lot about chemistry as a child even though he did not know what it all meant and it was this learning that was more ... Read More:

7.Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics) by: Rachel Carson September 28, 2000
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Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics) Some people may think this book is no longer relevant in a world where DDT is mainly consigned to history, but, unless we learn from history we will make the mistakes over again. This classic from the early 1960s explains how the various parts of nature are all affected when man tries to eliminate a pest with what is effectively a universal poison. Despite all of the evidence of the reducing efficacy of these poisons and the damage caused to the rest of the ecosystem, the spraying continued for years. The author provides numerous examples of the destruction caused by the use of these chemicals despite following the manufacturer's guidelines. Whilst this book can be heavy going and occasionally a little disjointed in places it is worth reading ... Read More:

8.An Inconvenient Truth [2006] starring: Al Gore directed by: Davis Guggenheim December 26, 2006
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This film is full of inaccuracies, fudged data, speculation and general lies. Anyone who has researched global climate change can clearly see that it is a natural phenomena that is dictated by powers we have no control over, for example the sun and its solar cycles. If it weren't for the natural occurring climate change cycles then where I live at the moment, the UK would be encased by massive glaciers, over history people have grown oranges in London and ice skated on the Thames River, both are not possible now due to the change in climate (naturally occurring). The powers that be are using the threat of 'man made' climate change to further their agenda of destroying the middle class, soon we will all be paying carbon taxes to a world central bank even though carbon is a necessary ... Read More:

9.An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About it: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by: Al Gore August 17, 2006
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If you were hoping for a hard-hitting book on the science of climate change, think again. It is more a book of Gore's political views poorly portrayed in what can only be described as a childrens picture book, segregated by tales of Gore's personal anecdotes and childhood memories in order to detach from the truth of the issue at hand and to sympathise with a has-been politician. Gore's apocolyptic vision is widley known to be a false representation of the dangers of climate change by scientists and climatologists alike, and even the IPCC that he loves to qoute so much fail to credit his views on 20 foot sea level rises, unprecendented storms and newstrains of diseases. The only truth I found in the whole book was that CO2 (only one of many 'greenhouse gasses' of which water vapour makes the vast majority) does ... Read More:

10.The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Penguin Press Science) by: Brian Greene February 24, 2005
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I started reading this as a complete physics novice. Having heard about the Large Hadron collider at CERN and the experiments that were due to begin in 2008, I wanted to be able to grasp the basics of what those scientists were hoping to achieve, and gain a better insight into cosmology more generally. But I had absolutely zero physics understanding, and the most I knew about Newton was that there was an apple that supposedly dropped on his head - something to do with gravity! I didn't really know what special or general relativity were, or even that these were two separate discoveries. I'd seen the odd TV documentary proposing something called superstring, and speculation about wormholes and time travel. There was also something called quantum physics, to do with very small particles, which I'd heard was very baffling. ... Read More:

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