Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know |  | Author: Patrick J. Michaels
Publisher: Cato Institute
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Is the weather truly getting worse? When it comes to global warming, dire predictions seem to be all we see or hear. Climatologists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain why the news and information we receive about global warming have become so apocalyptic. The science itself has become increasingly biased, with warnings of extreme consequences from global warming becoming the norm. That bias is then communicated through the media, who focus on only extreme predictions. The authors compellingly illuminate the other side of the story, the science we aren't being told. This body of work details how the impact of global warming is far less severe than is generally believed and far from catastrophic.
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 A damn good book!!! February 16, 2010
young frump (California)
Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling have done a great job of exposing the tripe, and worse, that have nearly overwhelmed all sectors of our nation. The authors should receive the Nobel Prize for Literature next year and the Pulitzer Prize as well. "Then truth will out," and finally it has.
Graphs, Graphs, Charts, Charts, is that All You Can't Manage? January 24, 2010
Dr Victor S Alpher (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I get a little tired of people complaining that they have to read a chart or a graph to understand something, or that they have to wade through one while reading an important book. When I was in secondary school, you couldn't graduate without showing rudimentary ability to read a graph.
The writers have the credentials to tackle the subject and do it well. I'm reminded of the book "Silent Spring" (Ehrlich is still a tenured professor last I checked) that warned of global freezing in the early 1970s and influence the tail end of the hippie generation.
When it comes to verbal explanation of the man-made Armageddon through global warming hoax, I would send those who cannot read graphs to YouTube and listen to a brief lecture by Christopher Monckton, Prime Minister Marager Thatcher's science advisor, who debunks the false science well. And to think that exposure of the hoax through the publication of e-mails from the University of East Anglia came out after this book--what a shame.
Nonetheless, the case for climate cycles is irrefutable, and man's contribution to them is negligible. No, Mr. Glover, the "failure" of Copenhagen did not lead to the earthquake in Haiti.
If I ever hear Dennis Franz (the most believable cop I know of on film or TV) ever utters such gibberish I may have to seriously consider Hari Kari.
But, until that time comes, even with my Ph.D. in hand, I recommend this book to anyone interested in the TRUTH, which the scientific method helps us distinguish from fallacy, but a search for which is never entirely over. I write this after the election of Senator Brown in Massachusetts, so I don't have to rail against the insanity of Cap and Trade at the moment. The bumper sticker I have seen one of my neighbors put on his or her auto that they paid for their Carbon Dioxide emissions in advance, makes my laugh and cry. Where would the American breadbasket, that feeds the world, be without Carbon Dioxide. Thanks to the NEA, do the young "skulls full of mush" that Limbaugh refers to not even know basic physiology and plant physiology?
May God help us when scientific dialogue is completely silenced by the supporters of State decrees about the outcome of informed debate.
A good compliment to your environmental reviews January 10, 2010
Michael W. Martinez (Gainesville, FL United States)
Without rehashing several other fine reviews, let me point out the main strength of this book. It has the ability to back up it's claims that Global Warming is not an immediate crisis, without dismissing the need to eventually solve greenhouse gasses.
Perhaps that is the crux of a moderates position. To publish, you need to push NEWS. Informing the public that the world is not falling, will not, in the eyes of the publishers, be worth publishing. And that is the true crisis brought up in this book. Science has started pushing to the money, and politicians will use it for their own ends.
a great book! December 16, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
very good read to understand the global warming by a racional view. the authors present good data and conclusions w/o tha bias we aare used to read in the news. i really recommend!
As mentioned in CRU email 1256765544.txt December 15, 2009
Mark E. Warner (Pottstown, PA United States)
This book was so important the Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) ," mentioned this book in on of the emails, 1256765544.txt, that were "purloined" by an unknown party.
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