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Scientists who deny global warming: kooks or crooks in the pay of Big Oil, or courageous crusaders for the truth?
The Deniers
by Lawrence Solomon
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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The only problem with this cozy scenario, says Lawrence Solomon in The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming
Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud -- And Those Who Are Too Fearful to Do So, is that it isn't true. There is a small and plucky coterie of
scientists who, because of their commitment to the facts, are daring to stand up -- at great personal cost -- against the established global warming myth.
Solomon explains how Gore and Co. have mounted an all-out campaign against these men, portraying them as hacks bought off by profit-mad oil companies
-- or, worse, as global warming "deniers," a term meant to link them with "Holocaust deniers." But Solomon knew firsthand from his efforts in the battles over nuclear energy in the 1970s and 1980s that scientists with integrity can hold unconventional and unpopular views, despite the scorn heaped upon them by the establishment. So when the rhetoric began to heat up on the global warming skeptics, he began to look into the claims of the deniers who were being so roundly criticized. In The Deniers he profiles some of the principal dissenters from global warming dogma -- all recognized leaders in their fields, with many of them even active in the official body that oversees most of the world's climate-change research, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In the process, Solomon provides absorbing insight into both the scientific issues and the ferocious political and media battles that are being waged
about global warming. The scientists he profiles are unflaggingly honest: many of them not only disagree profoundly with the global warming doomsayers, but
with other scientists who are also profiled in this book. "Such disagreement," he says, "is the very stuff of science" -- real science, not the debased and
politicized Al Gore variety.
The few, the proud, the real scientists:
- Dr. Edward J. Wegman: the scientist who took on Michael Mann -- perhaps the most prominent and most cited of pro-global warming scientists -- and demonstrated before a Congressional committee that Mann was utterly out of his depth
- The single indispensable argument underlying the idea that recent warming has been so unusual over the last millennium as to demand an explanation
beyond natural forces -- and the scientist who laid it to rest
- The Medieval Warming Period: how it stymies attempts to prove that twentieth century rises in temperature are unique in recorded history
- Proof: today's high carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are not new, and carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated in the past -- and the high carbon
dioxide levels like those predicted by the alarmists aren't even dangerous
- Exploded: the main proof that global warming advocates offer the idea that, due to human activity, the current atmospheric level of carbon dioxide is higher than in the pre-industrial period
- Why life on earth would be impossible without the greenhouse effect
- The odd story of how solar scientists became the bitter enemies of the global warming establishment
- Why no aspect of the global warming alarmists' case has come in for as much criticism as the complex computer models with which the alarmists claim to be able to predict climate change hundreds of years into the future -- and why even many of the supporters of the doomsayer case find these models -- and
the extreme claims made for their accuracy -- deeply embarrassing
- Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov: his cogent arguments that recent global warming will be short-lived, and that we are actually on the brink of a global
cooling -- likely a severe one
- Not just junk science, but imaginary science: how the scenarios raised in a much-cited and influential National Geographic article making the case for
global warming rely on imaginary glaciers and ice sheets, not on the actual formations that exist in Greenland and Antarctica
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