Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor by Roy Spencer

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  • Publisher: Encounter Books
  • Pub. Date: March 2008
  • ISBN-13: 9781594032103
  • Sales Rank: 4,649
  • 191pp
 
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Roy Spencer shows that fears about global warming are vastly exaggerated and are driven by politics, not truth. A global superstorm has already arrived - but it is a storm of hype and hysteria. This ground-breaking book combines impeccable scientific authority with great wit to expose the hysteria surrounding the myths of global warming and climate change. Spencer shows that the earth is far more resilient than we think.

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Excellent book answers many unanswered questionsby Anonymous

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November 08, 2008: I bought this book originally for myself to help me understand the truth behind all the global warming hype you hear in the media. I am not a scientist by any means but do have interest in what is going on with our climate. This book answered my questions and was very enlightening, and also made me laugh with it's humorous perks. I've since given this book as gifts several times and not a single person has said anything less than then LOVED the book. I'm asked all the time to let friends borrow my copy, I know what I will be giving them for Christmas! This book is a MUST have and great gift idea!!

Useful account of 'Green' campaign styleby Willp

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October 31, 2008: Dr Roy Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama and was formerly a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA.

He says that we should ask ? how much of global warming is the result of natural processes? Every scientist-sceptic believes that global warming is a fact, but it is not a fact that is manmade: scientists just do not know how much warming is due to natural climate change.

He explains why global warming is unlikely to be a serious threat. The atmospheric CO2 concentration was 320 parts per million in 1960 and 380 in 2005. The rise was one extra molecule for every 100,000 molecules of air, every five years.

He advises that we should also ask ? how much will any `Green? proposal cost? Cutting CO2 would cut the benefits of industry, production, technology and energy use. Isn?t Gore just another US billionaire telling the rest of us to stay poor?

The Kyoto Agreement encourages firms to move to developing countries, which have fewer environmental controls, so the firms can pollute more. Kyoto shifts, not cuts, pollution.
Kyoto is also causing the destruction of old-growth forests ? which do not soak up carbon ? because some third world governments cut them down and replace them with plantations that do soak up carbon. Kyoto has also made countries turn farm land over to growing biofuels like ethanol, which are very water-intensive, taking water from crops and people.
The world has enough coal reserves for 1,000 years or more. We should be building nuclear power stations like France, 75% of whose electricity is nuclear. So we don?t need `alternative energy resources? - the hope of some new non-fossil fuel ? which anyway is about as likely as some new alternative range of food.

Spencer points out that alarmism can be lethal, for example the ban on DDT has killed millions of Africans. Restoring residual spraying of African homes with DDT would save a million lives a year, but the EU threatens to impose trade sanctions on any country that does so.


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