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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Pages: 184
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ISBN: 1594032106
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
EAN: 9781594032103
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Publication Date: March 27, 2008
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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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 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 man 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. 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.
Is this trend too late to stop? I honestly don't know, but both "Global Warming" and "Creationism" are widely accepted by the American public, and 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.
Excellent Primer on Climate, Weather, and Warming August 19, 2008
Dr. Spencer lays out his objectives for the book in the introduction which primarily is to provide climate information to climate lay people (which is most everyone on the planet).
I found this book to be very informative regarding the atmosphere, basic weather (energy, wind, currents, temperature, etc.), theories of global warming, government policy creation, and overall just how much is unknown about warming, weather, and climate change.
He also provides information on his experience working for the government and his experience with environmentalists (including Al Gore) and alarmists.
As a bonus Dr. Spencer has a chapter on basic economics (related to policy creation) that should be required reading for all.
I would recommend this book.
 Is Global Warming discussion bad for your health? August 14, 2008
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The global warming fight is bad for your health because it shifts the policy focus to global warming, to so called "greenhouse gases" and away from toxic pollution, such as SO2, NO and particulate matter. No one is claiming these are not bad for your health and were particularly bad in Southern California and London before they enacted sensible regulations to curb it.
Lets shift to using fuel cells in cars and for electric power not to reduce greenhouse gases but to reduce or eliminate toxic pollution. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater, i.e. the battle against toxic pollution because of the likely spurious concern with "greenhouse gases".
Climate Confusion? August 13, 2008
Don't be put off by the title, this is an interesting and thought provoking book written by an open, sceptical but trained scientific mind. The author's acceptance of the differences of opinion in the scientific community regarding the degree of human attribution to the perceived threat of global warming/climate change precludes him from giving the reader direct answers to the fundamental questions, but rather he provides them with much of the material to get the answers, or make valued judgements for themselves. This is done with humour and is intellectually insightful, but without presumption of any kind I would say. All in all, a thoroughly good read and one that successfully pricks the bubble of the many preposterous predictions we see promulgated by the media on the subject, but, somewhat worryingly, not challenged by the many informed individuals who know better but prefer to remain silent. Recommended without reservation.
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