The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming

by Horner, Christopher C.

• ISBN13: 9781596985018
• ISBN10: 1596985011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-12
• Publisher: Regnery Pub

Summary

This latest installment in the P.I.G. series provides a provocative, entertaining, and well-documented expose of some of the most shamelessly politicized pseudo-science we are likely to see in our relatively cool lifetimes.

Author Biography

Christopher C. Horner is the author of bestselling The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, and Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. He is a senior fellow with the Washington, D.C., think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute and affiliated with European counterpart organizations. An attorney in Washington, D.C., Horner has represented scientists, think tanks, and members of the United States House and Senate on matters of environmental policy in the federal courts. Mr. Horner has appeared on the FOX News Channel, Court TV, MSNBC, the BBC, CNN, CNN International, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and shows hosted by Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Laura Ingraham. Horner has also contributed to the Washington Times, National Review Online, Human Events, Energy Tribune, Spain’s Actualidad Economica, and the Brussels legislative news magazine EU Reporter. He blogs at National Review, the American Spectator, and BigGovernment.com. Horner received his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in his home town of St. Louis where he received the Judge Samuel Breckenridge Award for Advocacy. He lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia, with his family.

Table of Contents

Green is the new red : the anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-human agenda of today's environmentalists	p. 3
Authoritarian impulse : environmentalists want to run your life	p. 25
The sky is falling	p. 37
Global warming 101	p. 65
The "consensus" lie	p. 81
Getting hot in here?	p. 111
Melting ice caps, angrier hurricanes, and other lies about the weather	p. 141
Media mania	p. 169
The big money of climate alarmism	p. 193
Al Gore's inconvenient ruse	p. 209
The cost of the alarmist agenda	p. 245
The Kyoto Protocol	p. 271
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