Red Hot Lies

by Horner, Christopher C.

• ISBN13: 9781596985384
• ISBN10: 1596985380
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-21
• Publisher: Regnery Pub

Summary

From the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming" comes this expos of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that support them.

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

Preface	p. vii
Media on a Mission: Lies, Distortions, Cover-Ups, and the Reporters Who Push Them	p. 1
Fear and Loathing: Alarmist Scare Tactics, Demonization, and Threats	p. 55
The Establishment Attacks: Woe to Dissenters	p. 89
Stifling Everyone's Speech: Even Their Own	p. 141
Poisoning the Little Ones: Propagandizing Your Children	p. 181
Big Government: How Government, Politicians, and Alarmists Abuse Power in the Pursuit of Power	p. 209
Stupid Science Tricks: Keeping that Gravy Train Chugging	p. 257
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: The UN's Four-Alarm Liar	p. 293
Conclusion: Heretics, Speak Out	p. 339
Notes	p. 341
Index	p. 399
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