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9781594036026

The Great Global Warming Blunder

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  • ISBN13:

    9781594036026

  • ISBN10:

    1594036020

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-09-04
  • Publisher: Encounter Books
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Summary

The Great Global Warming Blunder provides a simple explanation for why forecasts of a global warming Armageddon constitute a major scientific faux pas: climate researchers have mixed up cause and effect when they have analyzed cloud behavior. Combining illustrations from everyday experience with state-of-the-art satellite measurements, Roy W. Spencer reveals how these scientists have been fooled by Mother Nature into believing that the Earth's climate system is very sensitive to humanity's production of carbon dioxide through the use of fossil fuels. He presents evidence that recent warming, rather than being the fault of humans, is a result of chaotic, internal natural cycles that have been causing periods of warming and cooling for thousands of years.

Author Biography

Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Formerly a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA, he now leads the U.S. science team for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. Dr. Spencer is co-developer of the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites, and has provided congressional testimony on the subject of global warming. He is the author of the bestseller Climate Confusion, along with numerous articles on weather and climate in scientific journals.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Editionp. vii
Introduction & Backgroundp. xi
Climate Change Happensp. 1
"We Are Going to Destroy the Creation"p. 25
Forcing: How Warming Gets Startedp. 37
Feedback: How Much Warming Results from the Forcingp. 54
How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientistsp. 64
Global Warming: Satellite Evidence for an Alternative Explanationp. 104
CO2: Dangerous Pollutant or Elixir of Life?p. 124
Out on a Limb: Predictions for the Futurep. 139
Summary & Conclusionsp. 153
Notesp. 163
Indexp. 171
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