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Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

Diana Walstad

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Malcolm Gladwell and Hachette Audio

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again

Jeffrey E. Young , Janet S. Klosko , et al.

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations

Robert Livingston

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Kelly McGonigal

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data

Jake VanderPlas

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Annie Jacobsen and Hachette Audio

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook (The Long-Form Math Textbook Series)

Jay Cummings

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

Leslie Kean and John Podesta

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

Bjorn Lomborg

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

How To Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Great Beer Every Time

John J. Palmer

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic & Algebra in Elementary School

Thomas P Carpenter , Megan Loef Franke, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

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BostonianonDec 9, 2020

The conclusion I draw is that draconian regulations and taxes to lessen global warming are not worth it. Economist Bjorn Lomborg has written books about this, the latest being "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (2020).

lumostonMar 15, 2021

Assuming this is the book "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" I don't think you can seriously take it as a piece of serious balanced research.

The book titles itself based on what it is, which is the same thing as hundreds of other books peddling cherry picked facts to say that the "establishment" is wrong on climate change. These books take whatever micro-divergence from climate models is currently being observed and trump it up as a refutation of all climate models and of the entire macro-trend.

15 years ago it was the lack of deep ocean warming which has now been observed. I'm sure that in 2021 there are innumerable discrepancies and poorly understood phenomena which could be used for this purpose.

BostonianonAug 16, 2021

I have an oil furnace and two gasoline-powered cars, as do tens of millions of Americans, and I hope my bank is funding businesses based on their solvency, not a political agenda. The people who want to eliminate fossil fuels should read a book such as Bjorn Lomborg's "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (2020).
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