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The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
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Argues that the evidence behind global warming is inaccurate, and the environmental policies based on that evidence may ultimately lead to dire consequences for Western nations in the future.
Publishers Description
This book tells for the first time one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded the politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.
Christopher Booker interweaves the story of the science of global warming with that of its ever more costly political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are passing laws which threaten to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the theory that CO2 is causing a world-threatening rise in temperatures is coming under challenge as never before.
The book exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a 'consensus of the world's top climate scientists'. It shows how the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is run by a small group of 'global warming' zealots, who have repeatedly rigged the evidence to support their theory. |
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Pages 368
Dimensions: Length: 8.5" Width: 5.67" Height: 1.5"
Weight: 1.32 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Dec 1, 2009
ISBN 1441110526
EAN 9781441110527
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 | Best book on the global warming scam! Dec 27, 2009 |
This is the best book on the global warming scam I have read to date.
With lots of references to information from reputable sources.
Helped me improve my conference on climate change.
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Higly recommended.
| | | | The Real Global Warming Disater Dec 23, 2009 |
I have read dozens of books about the global warming, from both camps, and found this one the most informative and well documented. It is difficult to understand and believe Barak Obama and Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel and other heads of States are still believing Al Gore and the other few catastrophic OVERT LIES produced by the IPCC bureaucrats, and not the true CLIMATE SCIENTIST like Professor Richard Lindzen. As he put it, they are threatening the whole human kind with "a roll-back of the industrial age", or a global economic suicide, from an unbelievable set of gross exaggerations and lies.
A must-read for all serious defenders of the thruth and sanity. | | | | Excellent book Dec 23, 2009 |
| This is an excellent book concerning one of the biggest political myths of all time! | | |  | Usefully presents evidence that undermines extreme Green claims Dec 14, 2009 |
This is a very thoughtprovoking book, though some may find it just provoking. It presents evidence that undermines the claims of the most extreme Green zealots.
Yet the book has its flaws too. It has a key misprint: a 7.7 degrees C temperature drop, for 0.7 degrees C. Don't publishers employ proof-readers any more? Carelessly, Booker writes that 1934 was the world's warmest year, when the research he cites clearly referred to the USA's warmest year.
The recent warming is not unprecedented. The Holocene Maximum of 7000-3000 BC, the Roman Warming of 200BC-540AD, the Medieval Warming of 900-1300 were all warmer than now, yet the planet survived.
The Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research rejected Freedom of Information requests for data on the weather stations it used. Professor Phil Jones (now head of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia) wrote in 1990 that its stations had 'few, if any changes in instrumentation, location or observation times'. He based this statement on a US Department of Energy report on just 35 of the 84 stations, which had found that fully half of the 35 had been moved!
The Met Office consistently predicts more warming than actually happens. For example, using the same computer model that gave the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change its forecasts for 2100, the Met Office forecast that 2007 would be the world's 'warmest year on record', with Britain 'set to enjoy another sizzling summer', that 2008 would be one of the 'top ten warmest years' ever, that 2009 would be one of the 'five warmest years on record', with a 'barbecue summer' in Britain, and that our winter would be 'milder than average'. All wrong: in February it admitted that 2008-9 was 'the coldest winter for 13 years'.
We are told that global warming causes an ever-growing number of extreme weather events. Yet hurricane activity was lower in the 2000s than in the 1930s, 1940s or 1950s. The IPCC's 2007 report confirmed, "there is no clear trend in the annual numbers of tropical cyclones." There were seven major droughts between 1900 and 1920, seven between 1921 and 1940, eight between 1941 and 1960, five between 1961 and 1980, but only three between 1981 and 2000.
The same IPCC report said, "Antarctic sea ice extent continues to show inter-annual variability and localised changes but no statistically significant average trends, consistent with the lack of warming reflected in atmospheric temperatures averaged across the region. ... Current global model studies project that the Antarctic Ice Sheet will remain too cold for widespread surface melting and is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall."
Coal and nuclear power stations produce 55 per cent of our electricity, wind turbines just 0.5 per cent. Many of these power stations are to be closed down under EU orders, causing a 40 per cent energy shortfall. EU rules allow subsidies for wind farms, but not for nuclear power stations. The government's 2003 White Paper said, "We do not propose new nuclear build."
The Climate Change Act of 2008 committed the state 'to ensure that the net UK carbon account for 2050 is at least 80 per cent lower than the 1990 baseline.' This could only be achieved by closing down the rest of our industry. As Energy Minister John Hutton said in September 2008, "no coal and no nuclear means no power, no future." Brown sacked him two weeks later.
This April, the government said no new coal-fired power stations would be allowed unless they used carbon capture - a technology which has not yet been developed. The government also said it would build 10,000 wind turbines, at a cost of £100 billion. The USA's 10,000 wind turbines produce just 3.9 Gigawatts, the same as one coal-fired power station.
| | |  | Hypocritical pandering Dec 12, 2009 |
| To accuse others of politicizing the evidence for anthropogenic climate change, while cherry-picking, distorting, and occasionally flat-out misquoting in order to do exactly that, is sadly not just sloppy journalism in this case: the author realizes there's a market for denialism, and is pandering to it. | | | Write your own review about The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
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