Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know by Patrick J. Michaels, Robert C. Balling
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- Pub. Date: January 2009
- 267pp
- Sales Rank: 26,916
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- Pub. Date: January 2009
- Publisher: Cato Institute
- Format: Hardcover, 267pp
- Sales Rank: 26,916
- ISBN-13: 9781933995236
- ISBN: 1933995238
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Is the weather truly getting worse? When it comes to global warming, dire predictions seem to be all we see or hear. Climatologists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain why the news and information we receive about global warming have become so apocalyptic. The science itself has become increasingly biased, with warnings of extreme consequences from global warming becoming the norm. That bias is then communicated through the media, who focus on only extreme predictions. The authors compellingly illuminate the other side of the story, the science we aren't being told. This body of work details how the impact of global warming is far less severe than is generally believed and far from catastrophic.
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A thoughtful look at climate changeby JohnDreiling
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February 15, 2009:
Many people take on faith the idea that global warming is entirely caused by humankind. This book claims that this is only partially true and asserts that, in fact, that there is much evidence that the treat is highly overblown. The authors show many examples of how the greenhouse gas theory of warming does not accurately describe what it claims. For example, greenhouse gas models of climate warming predict that atmosphere temperatures should rise before surface temperature, but the opposite is true and by quite a great margin. The greenhouse gas models also don't explain why Antarctica is cooling. The book covers many other important flaws in the greenhouse gas methodology as well.
Also ignored in global warming scare scenarios is archeological evidence that forests in Siberia grew to the Arctic Ocean from 8,000 B.P. to 3,500 B.P. This means the Earth was 4 to 12 degrees F. warmer than it is now for more than four thousand years, Despite this long warm period, the Greenland icecap (or the Iceland ice cores which confirm this theory) were not melted or destroyed. This fact is an inconvenient truth for the Al Gore flooded coastline scare.
The authors relate how unbalanced and vicious the global warming issue is conducted. One of the authors (Michaels) recently lost his job of the last thirty years as climatologist for the state of Virginia because the governor demanded he recant his views. But he didn't. Instead he and Bolling wrote this very excellent, very timely, very needed book.
If you want a sane and informed view of climate change, read this book.
I Also Recommend: The Skeptical Environmentalist.
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