Over the past half-century we have become used to planetary scares of one kind or another. In the 1960s we were warned that the population explosion would lead to mass global starvation. In the '70s we were warned that the planet was running out of natural resources -- and when the planet's temperature, which had been gently rising for some 400 years, appeared to be falling again, scientists warned of a "New Ice Age." Considering the failure of these dire predictions to come true, writes British author Nigel Lawson in An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, a little more skepticism to the latest planetary scare is in order: it is time, he says, to take a cool look at global warming.

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Move over red, white, and blue: America is going green! Green energy. Green technology. Green homes. Green cars. Green government. We've just elected our first Green president, Barack Obama, and numerous green senators and representatives. And the Greens' intentions seem good: they want us to live in a "sustainable" manner and be kind to the planet, shrinking our carbon footprints, stopping climate change and protecting wildlife and the wilderness from man’s destructive ways. They want us to end our addiction to oil by repowering America with clean, renewable energy. They want to create a healthy and just planet where people live in harmony with nature.

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There's an old saying in journalism that "If it bleeds, it leads" -- or, to put it another way, "Bad news sells." But what happens when the media applies that principle to questions of scientific fact that have serious policy implications? According to climatologists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling Jr., you get the kind of unbalanced scare-mongering that typifies today's "global warming" reportage. Now, in Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

, Michaels and Balling explain how the political and scientific debate over climate change has become apocalyptic with rhetoric and flimsy with science.

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It's standard operating procedure for the global warming industry: they've ruined careers, blacklisted respected scientists, and knowingly spread lies about dissenters. Global warming fanatics have even called for the imprisonment of skeptics and used government pressure to cut off rivals' funding. As if all that weren't enough, one global warming skeptic has had the lug nuts on his tires secretly loosened when his rejection of climate change orthodoxy became public.

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As the first decade of the 21st century nears its end, there is ever more evidence to suggest that, thanks to global warming, the world may be heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe. But it is not the one which has been so widely and noisily predicted by the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. The real disaster to be brought about by global warming, writes Christopher Booker, is not the technicolor apocalypse promised by Gore and his many allies -- melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, hurricanes, droughts, mass-extinctions. It will be the result of all those measures being proposed by the world's politicians in the hope that they can avert a nightmare scenario which, as many experts now believe, was never going to materialize anyway.

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The liberal environmental movement takes for granted that strict government regulation and public ownership is necessary for the preservation of the environment. Yet who, in the end, is responsible for the great environmental catastrophes of the recent past? According to Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the real answer is: environmentalists themselves. "The dogmatic ideologies and restrictive policies pushed on us by the environmental Left have harmed nature more than helped it," argues Murray, "but the environmentalists have never borne the blame." Now, in The REALLY Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About – Because They Helped Cause Them, Murray reveals just how often and gravely liberal environmentalists have harmed the environment, how they have covered up this fact, and how conservatives can reclaim the environmental issue by stressing free-enterprise, private-property solutions.

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For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales! But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to give the sinister prize they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic activity, and even individual behavior. Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes - and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. read more

To Al Gore and his disciples, global warming is man-made and dangerous, and unless we radically change human energy production and consumption, the results will be catastrophic for humans and all other species. But to S. Fred Singer -- founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami -- the real question is not whether the Earth is warming -- but why and by how much. Now, in Unstoppable Global Warming, Singer and co-author Dennis T. Avery demonstrate that the earth’s current warming trend is a largely natural occurrence that we can’t do anything to stop – and which is not only harmless, but potentially beneficial.

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Al Gore and the mainstream media tell us constantly that it's all settled: global warming is an established fact -- and it's a grave problem that it is rapidly getting worse, is caused primarily by human activity, and will lead to catastrophe if those activities continue unchecked. Says who? Why, the "experts" -- those who know directly what we can know only because they tell us. Doubtful? Go to them and ask. They have the right training and access to the best data. They understand the equations. Trust them. There are no dissenters sufficiently credible to make them worth taking seriously.

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