Climate Change: The Facts

If you are already skeptical of the public pontification of AGW, this book may broaden your domain of credible sources (lots of the essay contributors have other more extensive materials). I've been reading a good bit over the years, but this book widened my sources. If you are supportive of the AGW platform, challenge yourself...read some of the essays...its not like you have to read the whole thing. And you can get the pre-owned copies very cheap. Each of the 6 essays under the Chapter 'The Science of Climate Change' i thought were invaluable at giving the layperson a foundation to at least understand the essentials as that is the level where many of the issues on accurate climate prediction can be understood. Chris Essex's essay on certainty/uncertainty related to computations regarding 'complex dynamic processes' (such as climate) also really stands out. I just received Essex/Mckitrick's book 'Taken By Storm' which also looks to be intriguing. The essays which most supplemented my knowledge as a layperson detailed the 'politics' of climate change. These essays are more characterized by sobriety rather than polemic (at least as i recognize polemic), the latter of which much popular reading on the political AGW tagenda ake the form of. The most valuable essay in this group (for me, alone worth the price of the book) is by Bernie Lewin 'The Scientists and the Apocalypse'. This offers a condensed but substantively detailed history (particularly since 1985) of the IPCC and related global organizations, which have gradually been granted (unquestionable?)authority for central scientific assessment and policy proposal and execution. This one essay is simply a startling read. Anyone with an interest in the AGW debate can't do without this sort of information (from this or other reliable sources) whether it bolsters their viewpoint or if they'd rather set about refuting the narrative's obvious influence on AGW mitigation policy. This subject and the info presented in this brief piece, open to fact checking and possible refute, is a major nerve animating the entire debate. Nuff said. 'Facts' is a volume worth the time of anyone with a serious interest in the debate, regardless of their point of view.

This book is an essay of anthologies about so called climate change, aka, global warming. Many of the essayists point out that the latter simply has not happened as predicted by the climate alarmists, and back it up with statistics, charts, and graphs. Many of these are admittedly difficult to understand on first reading, but serious layman, such as myself, are able to understand how the climate change "scientists" have, to use the old saying, lied with statistics. More broadly, and more alarmingly, the book demonstrates in detail how political and ideological motives have corrupted the scientific method. My favorite passage is the refutation of the oft repeated "97% of climate scientists agree..." In the chapter "False Prophets Unveiled" by Adrew Bolt, it is pointed out that "arguments are settled by evidence, not a show of hands" [kindle loc 3927}, and that, Albert Einstein, in response to the book "one hundred authors against Einstein," responded, regarding his new theory of relativity: "why 100 authors? If I were wrong than one would have been enough." [kindle loc 3982] Einstein's quip was Churchillian. This book is loaded with facts and evidence to refute any climate alarmist. But I suggest that you do not try, since, the book states, "climate change is their religion." And you cannot change someone's religion. But this book is essential reading if you truly seek to understand the pseudoscience of "climate change."

I believe in "climate change." Actually, as far as I can tell, all the climate has ever done is change. Thus, I think, climate change is real. The problem today is that "climate change" is not what we are actually talking about in the current "debate." We are really talking about so-called "anthropogenic Global warming." In other words, "man made global warming." It is our excessive use of petroleum that is changing weather patterns-so we are told. Unfortunately, for the Global Warmests, their earlier predictions (and they've changed their doomsday dates multiple times) that if we, the human race, did not stop our evil ways, and listen to them, the Arctic Ice Caps would melt and drown us all out, has not come to pass. It didn't happen in 1995, or 1999, or 2000. So, instead of "Global Warming" and melting ice-caps, which was, obviously, not happening, the "settled" scientists(?) started to call it "Climate Change", and, instead of claiming Doomsday in 15 or 20 years, now claim it won't happen for a hundred years-you wait, if you chump folks don't let us control your lives, you are all going to be drowned out. All of this reminds me of that great scientific prognostication of the 1970's: "The Population Bomb", written by the great Stamford scientist, Paul Erlich. He predicted that the exploding world population would drive the world into starvation, riots, revolutions and just general mayhem by 1985-or some such ridiculous date. That song and dance became: If we didn't force our population to stop reproducing, we were all doomed. Of course, all the super smart people believed it and claimed it was "settled science"-or the era's equivalent thereof-and anyone who questioned the prognosis was a stupid Neanderthal. In fact, they sounded just like the Global Warmests sound today. We heard all about Malthusian geometric population growth, and other scientific "facts", that proved, conclusively, ultimate mass starvation. Well, how many of you remember Paul Erlich? Yes, it's true: the world didn't listen-the stupid Neanderthals simply ignored the smart people-and the world went on to new population heights. No mass starvation. No food riots. No revolutions. Real scientists simply developed new methods of food supply, that used the same area of land to produce more and better crops. Everybody got, and is, fed. And now we have the Climate changers. None of their doomsday prognostications have come to fruition, so they've set doomsday out a hundred years, and stopped calling the event, "Global Warming." This book takes apart these Doomsday predictions. You learn that it's quite simple: there is no such valid science as "settled." Science is always open to change, it does not stand still. But, most importantly, real science (a real scientific hypothesis), not only describes what makes the hypothesis true, but what would demonstrate that the hypothesis is false. That second part-that which would disprove the global warming hypothesis-does not exist in the climate change debate. Nothing exists, according to these people, that contradicts the hypothesis-in fact, they claim that it is not a hypothesis: it is absolutely, unquestionably, factually, true. And, that's the proof! There is nothing else: no questioning is valid or allowed. We say it's true, therefore, it is true. I could go on and on with this, but it's pointless. No political leader, that I know of, would question this.

Detailed and forensic analysis of the science, political and social issues surrounding climate change theory and the resultant government policies. The book presents the series of dominoes now resulting in the current policies advocated by both sides of government. It argues these are expensive, ineffectual and even unnecessary. Demonstrated is the need to pause and reexamine the first domino of evidence based climate science, and for political pressure to be offloaded from scientists in so doing. Let science, not consensus guide the debate.

Must read. Scientific facts rather than religious arguments ...

Excellent book, documenting much of the concerns that many have over the belief of AGW and the rush to get an agreement in Paris in 2015. The pre- industrial climate was the Little Ice age -- not something anybody would willingly prefer to today's climate. It would appear to be the preferred climate for alarmists. A minor temperature change in geologic terms, now threatens to destroy the west's standard of living and commit millions to continued poverty. The facts are laid out in a straight forward way and alarmists are treated fairly, but more than meet their match with this book. The JPPC's mandate is to find evidence to prove that man made global warming is creating a terrifying future and carbon dioxide is to blame and must be stopped. The fact that we have experienced nearly 2 decades of flat temperatures is never explained by the alarmists but the march to a world treaty to control energy goes on, with the meeting in Paris in 2015 set to legislate a clamp on carbon dioxide as the great villian. This book is set in a question format and the answers are logical and make a complex situation clear. Politics has overtake science and has forced science to give up its most powerful weapon - skepticism. The book explains this very well.

Una visione ben documentata, che mette fortemente in discussione la scientificità della narrativa attuale sull'aumento delle temperature.

Manmade climate change is the original sin, the root cause of the suicidal policies of the world in recent years. The book explains the way that this lie has been created and promoted. It is a collection of various writers, from distinct fields. I would highly recommend this book.