Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor | 
 enlarge | Author: Roy Spencer
Publisher: Encounter Books
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ISBN: 1594032106
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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 disasterous 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.
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 Global Warming , fact or myth August 27, 2008
This is a very well written book that is easy to read and understand by the average person that is not educated in weather. This book gives facts about weather and related subjects by informed professionals that don't have a political agenda and want to know the truth.
Thanks for this book.
Jerry Bratcher
Clamate Confusion August 25, 2008
Easy reading analysis of a very complex situation. The message is very enlightening - "manmade global warming is a hoax".
I recommend this book who is truly interested in facts about our climate and its effect on the planet.
Clear and concise August 22, 2008
Spencer takes a confusing topic, shakes out all the hyperbole and whittles down the junk...until a clear and concise explanation of the climate, weather patterns and motives from those who are so shrill on this topic become clear. This country is headed for hard times if we continue to ride the "Man-Made global warming train" to disaster. Whenever someone on the radio, TV or in print states, "this 'such and such' is a fact agreed upon by everyone"..then I'll KNOW it isn't true! Good read, even funny at times. Sobering for sure. If you still have an open mind this book is for you.
Well written, easy to understand, and credible. A MUST READ August 21, 2008
This is a book that should be read by all American adults. In fact, it should be read in High School science classes, as we've gone very wrong -- and only recently -- about how our society views science.
It's sad a fact of history that religion and politics often trump scientific fact. This caused the Dark Ages in Western Europe. It caused China of the Marco Polo era to regress into a backward nation. In a scant century or two, Islamic nations fell from a huge lead in science and medicine, to backwards, warring, tribes and clans. And it's possible they may never recover.
Up until 1995, an agency of Congress -- the well-respected Office of Technology Assessment -- existed to deliver competent, objective, non-partisan science advice, hopefully BEFORE Members of Congress would vote on legislation or take public positions on important scientific issues. That's how it used to work. Several nations around the world copied this, but we abolished it without warning, allegedly for "cost savings."
The sad truth is that both parties, each for its own reasons, now prefer to not be constrained by real science. We're turning away from science as a society, and history has not been kind to nations that chose that path.
It was technology and informed policy that made historians call the 20th Century "The American Century." Are we turning away from what made us great? Let's just say that the cults and political factions forming around science based issues like Global Warming and Creationism (remember the Scopes Monkey trial of the 1930s?) are not encouraging.
Is this trend too late to stop? I honestly don't know, but both "Global Warming" and "Creationism" are now widely accepted by the American public, and I'd argue this falling into ignorance does not bode well for our sons and daughters.
Right now, the critical issue for America is energy policy. For the long term, we need alternate energy sources. For the medium term, we need to find more oil and develop better sources of supply. For the short term, we need real science and to let the market run its course.
Because of Mr. Gore's widely accepted misinformation -- he invented the Internet, you know -- we are making bad decisions and bungling our future. This book is a good way for Americans to return to real science about Global Warming. Whatever your party or views, I think it is a must-read.
climate confusion August 20, 2008
Very well written, easy to understand, but very informative. This should be a required text to combat the propaganda in our public schools.
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