Climate confusion : how global warming hysteria leads to bad science, pandering politicians, and misguided policies that hurt the poor / by Roy W. Spencer.

  • Spencer, Roy W.
Date:
2008
  • Books

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Description

If you listen to the media, you would think that man-made environmental catastrophe was about to engulf the world and imperil civilization. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to nightly jeremiads about CO2 emissions and carbon footprints, we are bombarded around the clock with alarmist reports that disastrous global warming is on the rise and that it's our fault. In Climate Confusion, noted climatologist Roy Spencer shows that fears about global warming are vastly exaggerated and are driven by politics, not truth. He shows that a global superstorm has already arrived--but it is a storm of hype and hysteria. Climate Confusion is a ground-breaking book that combines impeccable scientific authority with great wit and literary panache to expose the hysteria surrounding the myths of global warming and climate change. Spencer shows that the earth is far more resilient than exopessimists pretend and that increasing wealth and technology ingenuity, far from being the enemies of the environment, are the only means we possess to solve environmental problems as they arise.--Provided by the publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York : Encounter Books, 2008.

Physical description

ix, 191 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

1st ed.

Contents

Global warming hysteria -- Science isn't truth -- How weather works -- How global warming (allegedly) works -- The scientists' faith, the environmentalists' religion -- It's economics, stupid -- The politics of climate change -- Dumb global warming solutions -- Less dumb global warming solutions -- Summary.

Bibliographic information

Includes index.

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ISBN

  • 9781594032103
  • 1594032106