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New Scientist Magazine - a weekly round up of News and Views along with articles on a wide variety of subjects.

Please click on www.newscientist.com.

 

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Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Summary Report. Please click on www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdfnerc

National Environmental Research Council (NERC)

General website, please click on www.nerc.ac.uk

NERC publications and pamphlets, please click on

www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/planetearth

For a debate between believers and sceptics of climate change please click please click www.nerc.ac.uk/about/consult/debate/debate.aspx?did=1

BOOKS READ AND RECOMMENDED BY GEOFF

Codes and Codebreaking

“The Code Book”

Simon Singh

Climate Science

“The Skeptical Environmentalist”

Bjorn Lomberg

“Cool It!”

Bjorn Lomberg

“The Revenge of Gaia”

James Lovelock

“The Chilling Stars - A Cosmic View of Climate Change””

Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder

“Sustainable Energy - without the hot air”

David J C MacKay

Downloadable book - please click here.

Science and Islam

“Science and Islam”

Ehsan Masood

Evolution

“Hen’s Teeth and Panda’s Toes”

Stephen Jay Gould

“The Panda’s Thumb”

Stephen Jay Gould

“Ever Since Darwin”

Stephen Jay Gould

“The Selfish Gene”

Richard Dawkins

“The Blind Watchmaker”

Richard Dawkins

“Climbing Mount Improbable”

Richard Dawkins

“Intelligent Thought”

ed John Brockman

Epigenetic Inheritance

New Scientist Article on inheritance of acquired traits.

click here

“Uprooting Darwin’s Tree”

New Scientist Article on hybridisation between species.

click here

The Selfless Gene: Rethinking Dawkins's doctrine

New Scientist Article on Group Evolution

Click here

Biblical Accuracy

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/

http://www.lookinguntojesus.net/

The Anthropic Principle

“Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Us?”

http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/FineTune.pdf

“The Goldilocks Enigma”

Paul Davies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_Principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe

“Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe”

Martin Rees

“The Accidental Universe”

P C W Davies