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

by Spencer, Roy W.

• ISBN13: 9781594032103
• ISBN10: 1594032106
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: PERSEUS BOOKS

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Roy W. Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he directs a variety of climate research projects. He received his Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1981, and was formerly a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. Dr. Spencer also serves as the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) flying on NASA's Aqua satellite. He is co-developer of the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He has authored numerous weather and climate research articles in scientific journals, and has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. VII
Prologue	p. 1
Global Warming Hysteria: All natural disasters are now caused by global warming	p. 11
Science Isn't Truth: What we know isn't necessarily so	p. 35
How Weather Works: The Mission: to move heat from where there is more to where there is less	p. 45
How Global Warming (Allegedly) Works: The popular explanation, and why it is probably wrong	p. 62
The Scientists' Faith, the Environmentalists' Religion: Belief in dangerous global warming is more faith than science	p. 85
It's Economics, Stupid: Views on what should be done about global warming are usually related to what we believe about economics and wealth	p. 103
The Politics of Climate Change: No other public issue has so much potential for abuse of authority	p. 124
Dumb Global Warming Solutions: Are they really serious about fixing global warming, or are they just pulling our leg?	p. 139
Less Dumb Global Warming Solutions: New energy technologies of the future are the only hope to "save" us from the threats posed by global warming	p. 160
Summary	p. 171
Epilogue	p. 183
Illustration credits	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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