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 enlarge | Author: Lawrence Solomon
Publisher: Richard Vigilante Books
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ISBN: 0980076315
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Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 refreshing viewpoint September 18, 2008
There are such a lot of strong opinions about global warming. It is refreshing to get an alternate viewpoint - the author is an involved environmental advocate who is at the same time concerned about the science and objectivity. He does a good job of presenting credible dissenting views from the now popular storyline - where man being the main cause of global warming - is presented as a certainty, in spite of substantial evidence questioning this certainty. The scientists whose views are presented are leaders in their respective fields and acknowledged experts in various aspects of the global warming debate. Their basic appeal is for honesty and forthrightness in looking at the facts and the whole question of global warming, so that we can properly address the issues. No one benefits from either stridency or twisting scientific analysis to support a personal or political agenda - the very nature of the scientific effort is to seek to understand the processes, and to help assess what impacts may be. When analysis is twisted to present a skewed picture of what is taking place, it helps no one. Instead we should be attempting to assemble an accurate picture of what environmental forces are at work, and to determine both what the risks actually are, and what options we may have to address them. Much of current activism seems to be driven by the fear (of the not so distant future effects) of man-caused global warming. The feeling is that if we will only take immediate and strong action, we can prevent the worst from happening (sea levels rising, increasing disruptions of weather patterns, and continued poisoning of our natural resources). But what if the global warming that we are currently experiencing is just a natural phenomenon, and the linkage of CO2 accumulation with global warming is not true? If we knew that to be the case, how would that affect our current actions? The fact that our energy supplies are limited, and that we face an incredible growth of demand is a real challenge that we must address with vision and courage. The need to responsibly manage our global resources, including reducing pollution and creating a sustainable approach to all that we do is needed and commendable. It is really just in the area of the global warming debate where it is important for us to figure out whether we really have a problem, so that we can muster public opinion and resources behind a clear plan of action (if one is needed).
The book is very readable and credible, and is well worth being read, no matter what side of the global warming debate you may be on. Highly recommended.
The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too to do so
Dispassionate scientists- not likely September 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mr Solomon's reporting of the shenanigans that go on in the name of science should give pause to all of us who depend on the supposed dispassionate arbiters of TRUTH to form our opinions. His chronicling of the manipulation of the facts and the sheer mendacity of those men and women of science who shape public policy should send all of us into tailspins of doubt as to what we believe vis a vis global warming. Scientists are not colorless beings devoid of feeling rather thier worldviews can and do influence their use of data. They also know which hand not to bite if they want to keep eating and receive funding. In this case, they should not bite the hand of the powerful green lobby, and their syncophants in the media. Read this book with eyes wide open and then get busy alerting your public officials as to the fraud and scare-mongering that threatens our capitalistic society and the material well-being it has bestowed on mankind.
Compelling Rebuttal to Man-Made Global Warming August 29, 2008
The author has done a scholarly job of interviewing many highly qualified scientists who refute the claims of Al Gore and his disciples. He makes a distinction between normal global warming and man-made global warming. I highly recommend the book.
A part of the turning tide August 28, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Self-promoters like Al Gore have used global warming hysteria to gain fame and fortune for themselves. Millions of people who have abandoned religion need something to believe in, so they become ardent "environmentalists". The scenario is a familiar one: those who gain by stirring up fear and hysteria become the leaders of the gullible masses. Those who stand in the way of the promoters are demonized. It was no different in Medieval Europe when the self-aggrandizers led literal witch hunts.
Today's witch hunts are promoted by Al Gore, the self-serving bureaucrats of the UN's IPPC, academics living off taxpayer government grants and the functionaries who award them, the entrepreneurs and charlarans peddling various conservation and energy schemes.
A lot of people have vested interests in promoting global warming alarmism.
Lawrence Solomon is also an environmentalist, but he has not succmubed to the imaginary "scientific consensus" on global warming pronounced by Al Gore.
Instead Solomon seeks the truth. He began a series of columns in Toronto's National Post featuring highly qualified and usually eminent scientists who disagreed with the "scientific consensus". These disturbers of the peace were villified for daring to question the accepted truths of the global warming alarmists - but they were not silenced.
Solomon went on to write more than 40 instsallments of his "The Deniers" column. A natural outgrowth was this meticulously researched book explaining the work and opinions of some truly qualified scientists who may not dispute global warming, but do reject the hysterical and unfounded claims that it is caused by industrial activity or that the result is catastrophe.
Solomon is a skilled writer. In describing the work of "The Deniers", he breaks down very complex and sophisticated areas of science into understandable lay terms. He provides an abbreviated CV of each of the scientists, making it clear that they are accomplished in their fields. Some of them, by the way, are well known to the public, such as Freeman Dyson.
But most are dedicated, responsible scientists who do not seek fame and glory: they seek scientific truth, something Al Gore and company are not interested in.
Solomon takes no position on any of the theories he writes about. Rather he is a chronicler. He opens the book with the well known "hockey stick" showing dramtic increases in global temperatures in just the past few decades. We are introduced to Dr. Edward J. Wegman who demolished the inexperienced, young Nichael Mann's "hockey stick". While Al Gore still touts Mann's nonsense, the UN's IPPC, without fanfare, stopped citing it.
Solomon's neutrality truly helps. The work of the dissenting scientists and their words make a compelling case without need for editorializing.
The alarmists, of course, have demonized Solomon as they have the scientists whose work he presents. Deniers cannot be tolerated in the world of alarmists who have declared "scientific consensus' and, thus, the impossibility of anyone, much less highly qualified and well respected, scientists dissenting.
It is unfortunate that the only people who read this book are those intelligent enough not to blindly follow the dictates of Al Gore, the Sierra Club and the millions of gullible people. For those who have the intelligence to understand that science is not proven by "consensus", Solomon provides much food for serious thought.
What is truly inspiring is that more and more of the "denying" scientists are being spoken of in the public sphere and their dissenting views are becoming known. While the truly committe global alarmists aren't open to actually assessing their views, many others are and that perhaps will lead to the triumph of reason.
Jerry
Global Warming Mafia at Work August 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley and have done some code modeling. The codes calculate some things well and other things (e.g. Temperature) not very well. I learned to be very suspicious of the results. I think the current Global Circulation Model code people have lost their objectivity and want to bend the hard data to fit their predictions. If their predictions are correct, why do they want to kill any research that might prove them wrong? What are they afraid of? Their attempts to punish any researcher who disagrees with them should have no place in science. This is probably the best book on the subject that I have read. In a recent development the American Physical Society's Forum on Physics and Society has opened a 'paper debate' for people to submit scientific articles on either side of the issue. I think that is a very healthy development. Polemics will not be published. Senator Barbara Boxer has made the idiotic statement that anyone who disagrees with the politically correct view is a 'flat-earth nut', but then she is famous for her arrogance.
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