An Appeal to Reason A Cool Look at Global Warming

by Lawson, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781590200841
• ISBN10: 1590200845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-29
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Energy, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, the economics, the politics, and the ethics. He concludes that, contrary to the deeply-flawed Stern Review, the conventional wisdom on the subject is suspect on a number of grounds; that global warming is not the devastating threat to the planet it is widely alleged to be; and that the remedy that is currently being proposed, which is in any event politically unattainable, would be worse than the threat it is supposed to avert. All this is argued with logic, common sense, and even wit, and thoroughly sourced and referenced.

Table of Contents

Foreword & Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Science - and the History	p. 5
The Next Hundred Years: How Warm? How Bad?	p. 23
The Importance of Adaptation	p. 39
Apocalypse and Armageddon	p. 47
A Global Agreement?	p. 54
The Cost of Mitigation	p. 65
Discounting the Future: Ethics, Risk and Uncertainty	p. 82
Summary and Conclusion: A Convenient Religion	p. 91
Notes	p. 107
Bibliography	p. 129
Index	p. 141
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