Meltdown The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

by Michaels, Patrick J.

• ISBN13: 9781930865792
• ISBN10: 1930865791
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Cato Inst
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Summary

An eminently readable and often humorous critique, Meltdown documents hundreds of exaggerations from scientists, politicians and the media, and ties them together with the common thread of rational self-interest.

Author Biography

Patrick J. Michaels is research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute

Table of Contents

Epigraph	vii
Foreword	1	(8)
An Introduction to Global Warming	9	(24)
Meltdown? The Truth about Icecaps	33	(40)
All Creatures Cute and Furry	73	(38)
Spin Cycle: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Other Cyclones	111	(16)
Droughts and Floods: Worse and Worse?	127	(36)
A Greener World of Changing Seasons?	163	(16)
Global Warming, Disease, and Death	179	(16)
No Fact Checks, Please!	195	(12)
The ``National Assessment'' Disaster	207	(14)
The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming	221	(16)
Breaking the Cycle	237	(6)
Afterword	243	(6)
References	249	(6)
Index	255