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Roosters of the Apocalypse: How the Junk Science of Global Warming Nearly Bankrupted the Western World Paperback – February 24, 2012


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  • Paperback: 113 pages
  • Publisher: The Heartland Institute (February 24, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1934791377
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934791370
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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About the Author

Rael Jean Isaac has a B.A. from Barnard College (summa cum laude), an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in English literature, and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York in sociology. She is the author of six books, including Israel Divided (Johns Hopkins University Press), The Coercive Utopians, with Erich Isaac (Regnery Gateway), Harvest of Injustice (National Legal and Policy Center), and Madness in the Streets, with Virginia Armat (The Free Press).

She has written on public policy issues for many journals, including The American Spectator, Commentary, Midstream, The Atlantic, National Review, The New Republic, Conservative Judaism, Reader s Digest, Chronicles of Culture, Politique Internationale, Quadrant (Australia), The Spectator (London), Society, Women s Independent Forum, Middle East Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, and American Enterprise.

She has four sons and five grandchildren and lives with her husband in Westchester County, New York.

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26 of 36 people found the following review helpful By D. J. Miller on March 11, 2012
Format: Paperback
The marvel of this short, insightful assessment of the global warming debate is that the author approaches it through the eyes of a social scientist.

Thus Dr. Isaac (Ph.D. sociology, City University of New York) places global warming alarmism among discredited millennial movements and apocalyptic prophecies whose heritage goes back eons.

The decisions to halt offshore drilling for oil or to subsidize green-energy alternatives, for instance, aren't so much matters of public-policy debate over land use and environmental protection as they are to further the cause of throttling the U.S. energy industry from the get-go. By doing so, alarmists -- the roosters in Dr. Isaac's metaphor -- can restrict economic growth and personal freedom, making it all the easier to command and control not just the owls -- the global warming skeptics -- but the rest of the animals on the farm in their pens as well.

To be sure, Dr. Isaac is fluent in the the science of global-warming skepticism, and easily cites the data that contradicts various alarmist predictions. She correctly recognizes how easy it is for owls and skeptics to get lost in the scientific weeds of North American oscillations and tree rings, and failing to change a single skeptic's mind.

Better, she argues in this presidential year, to focus on who will benefit if the United States embraces the apocalyptic vision of global warming alarmists, strangles the nation's energy sector, and looks to totalitarian governments such as China for relief.

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15 of 23 people found the following review helpful By Richard Trzupek on March 23, 2012
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As many people have observed, the modern environmentalist movement has more in common with a pagan religious movement than anything having to do with science and reason. In this marvelous, easy-to-digest book Rael Jean Isaac takes that analogy to its logical conclusion: today's enviro-theocrats are the latest in a long-history of doomsday prophets who have attempted to use the specter of supposedly imminent disaster to inflate their importance and/or line their pockets. Unfortunately, the gullible, technically ignorant mainstream media and a host of equally misinformed policy-makers have provided the echo-chamber that these "roosters of the apocalypse" so desperately need in order to scare the begeezus out of the general population, and Isaac takes them all to task.

Isaac neatly exposes and skewers the spurious foundations of global warming alarmism: the fact that "consensus" only exists with regards to points that don't actually matter; the IPCC's shameful history of dissimulation; the appalling ignorance of media-types who purport to speak with authority and a host of other topics. She is one of the few voices to point out that - contrary to popular perception - the United States and the Obama administration have already taken a number of economically-damaging steps to reduce the use of cheap, abundant fossil fuels in the name of eco-purity. All of the information and arguments are clearly and logically presented and Ms. Isaac's style makes it a fun read to boot. This is a book that every policy-maker should read before they cast another vote for the President's next "green energy" boondoggle. It's full of truths that Al Gore would find terribly inconvenient, if only he had the guts and integrity to read it.
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13 of 20 people found the following review helpful By George Clowes on March 11, 2012
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Rather than dwelling on the fine details of the arguments offered by global warming alarmists ("roosters") and global warming skeptics ("owls"), author Rael Jean Isaac instead focuses on the underlying agenda of the movement's environmentalist founders, who despise technology, who don't want cheap energy even if it's clean, and who happily envision restoring an apparently "golden age" of reduced energy use that existed circa 1900. This short but informative book will help the reader see beyond the feel-good public facade of global warming activism - with its calls for "green" energy and reduced carbon footprints - and realize that significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions would scale back the economy drastically and force a reduced quality of life on all Americans.

Would a nation ever deliberately take steps to destroy its economy? Isaac points to South Africa in the 1850s when the leaders of the powerful Xhosa tribe ordered its members to cease planting crops, kill their cattle, and destroy their stores of grain in the belief that this would restore their livelihood to the "golden age" that existed before the arrival of white invaders. But after destroying their economy, almost half the tribe died and the survivors were herded into labor camps by the British.

While we may marvel at the gullibility of a primitive tribe, Isaac points out that the general acceptance of another apocalyptic vision is driving a similar policy of economic suicide in the United States today. In 2010, President Obama warned that global warming "poses a threat to our way of life," and his administration has taken a series of actions to further his stated goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 83 percent below 2005 levels by 2050.
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14 of 22 people found the following review helpful By Mental Health Expert on March 21, 2012
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As a died in the wool liberal, I am continually amazed at how anti-liberal and lemming like my fellow liberals can be. The belief in man made global warming has become my peers new religion. The fact that we are coming off the ice age has no meaning to them. What temperature should the world be? Five degrees cooler? Ten?

This book presents some of the evidence against global warming, but more importantly it shows how this belief and the mega government funding that supports it has risen to religion like acceptance. The Pope has ruled. And thus it is. Millions of dollars that could be helping create schools, provide services for people with mental illness, and go to other programs liberals used to care about is now being diverted to the Eco-Industrial Complex.

Is man-made Global warming real? I don't know. But what I do know after reading this, is that the jury is still out.
This book questions conventional wisdom and is worth reading by those who have drank the Kool-Aid.
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