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Climate Change: The Facts Kindle Edition
Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibility that human emissions of carbon dioxide will lead to catastrophic consequences for the planet. Patrick Michaels demonstrates the growing chasm between the predictions of the IPCC and the real world temperature results. Richard Lindzen shows the climate is less sensitive to increases in greenhouse gases than previously thought and argues that a warmer world would have a similar weather variability to today. Willie Soon discusses the often unremarked role of the sun in climate variability. Robert Carter explains why the natural variability of the climate is far greater than any human component. John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy demonstrate how little success climate models have in predicting important information such as rainfall.
Nigel Lawson warns of the dire economic consequences of abandoning the use of fossil fuels. Alan Moran compares the considerable costs of taking action compared to the relatively minor potential benefits of doing so. James Delingpole looks at the academic qualifications of the leading proponents of catastrophic climate change and finds many lack the credentials of so-called ‘sceptics’. Garth Paltridge says science itself will be damaged by the failure of climate forecasts to eventuate. Jo Nova chronicles the extraordinary sums of public money awarded to climate change activists, in contrast to those who question their alarmist warnings. Kesten Green and Scott Armstrong compare climate change alarmism to previous scares raised over the past 200 years. Rupert Darwall explains why an international, legally binding climate agreement has extremely minimal chances of success. Ross McKitrick reviews the ‘hockey stick’ controversy and what it reveals about the state of climate science.
Donna Laframboise explains how activists have taken charge of the IPCC. Mark Steyn recounts the embarrassing ‘Ship of Fools’ expedition to Antarctica. Christopher Essex argues the climate system is far more complex than it has been presented and there is much that we still don’t know. Bernie Lewin examines how climate change science came to be politicised. Stewart Franks lists all the unexpected developments in climate science that were not foreseen. Anthony Watts highlights the failure of the world to warm over the past 18 years, contrary to the predictions of the IPCC. Andrew Bolt reviews the litany of failed forecasts by climate change activists.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 11, 2015
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- ASIN : B00S5L5Y0W
- Publisher : Stockade Books (January 11, 2015)
- Publication date : January 11, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 2446 KB
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- Print length : 389 pages
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Introducing him at the United States Senate in 2015, Ted Cruz called Mark Steyn "an international bestselling author, a Top Five jazz recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist".
All of which happens to be true.
Mark Steyn is the author of After America, which was a Top Five bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; and his most recent bestseller, The [Un]documented Mark Steyn. His new book, The Prisoner of Windsor, is set to release in April 2023.
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Steyn's human rights campaign to restore free speech to Canada led to the repeal by Parliament of the notorious "Section 13" hate-speech law, a battle he recounts in his book Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West.
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For a decade and a half until Rush's death, Mark Steyn was a hugely popular guest-host of America's Number One radio show The Rush Limbaugh Program (EIB). He was also a favorite guest-host of America's Number One cable show Tucker Carlson Tonight, and hosted its lead-in-show Fox News Primetime. He regularly drew some of the highest ratings in all US television as a host for Tucker and other top shows.
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CON: The book assumes basic familiarity with climate science and politics so it's not a good introduction. Also, some of the info is repetitive. American readers should note that many of the essays are written by Australians so names and institutions may be unfamiliar.
Summary:
The central issue in the climate "wars" is climate sensitivity to CO2 (warming per doubling of CO2). Despite 40 years of effort, climate scientists still can't narrow the possible range (1-10 C) with 3-4 C being the "most likely". But if it turns out to be "low" (<2C), then all of the controversy and concern have been for nothing.
Global temperatures increased by 0.5C from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Since then, temperatures have been basically flat ("paused") with slight random fluctuations. So it's both true we've had no global warming for almost 2 decades and yet temperatures are at "record" highs. (But the "highs" are far lower than climate models predict- and any "increase"- e.g. the recent "2014 warmest year" hype- is within the measurement error!) The pause was not predicted by climate models- and its length is increasingly embarrassing for alarmists, who can't explain it (numerous theories have been proposed with natural variation being increasingly cited). Several of the essayists point out that if natural variation explains the pause, then perhaps it also explains most of the 0.5C rise in the first place! The climate debate is incredibly polarized, so the only way it can be settled now is by nature itself. During the next decade, if the pause continues or if global cooling commences (as predicted by some alternate theories which say the sun's impact on climate has been greatly underestimated), then CAGW will finally be falsified. Stay tuned.
Note: Climate science isn't the only field to face such an impasse. For 40 years, the "consensus" of particle physicists have believed in a theory called super-symmetry (SUSY). The problem is there's no evidence for it- and if it isn't found soon at the LHC collider, then most physicists will finally abandon it. But some will continue to believe in it anyway- just like some climate scientists who keep insisting climate sensitivity is high in the midst of the pause. As Planck wrote, "scientific theories don't change because old scientists change their minds; they change because old scientists die".
The first 6 essays cover the science of climate change and covered most of the points skeptics generally make very well. I have been very active in staying on top of the issue and am an engineer by trade so I appreciated this section. There were a couple of points I hadn't thought about before, but most were issues I was aware of.
The next 6 essays covered the economics of climate change, which is a subject all need to better understand. Bottom line is that even if what the alarmists say is true, the proposed solutions are very expensive and have virtually no impact.
The final 9 essays were under the heading of 'The climate change movement', and covered the issues from the journalists and cultural point of view. Most of these essays were written by the best known skeptics such as Anthony Watts and Mark Steyn. Many were very entertaining and covered many of the critical moments in the climate change debate such as the Hockey Stick.
I generally enjoyed nearly all of the essays and the book as a whole. Highly recommend this book for those wishing to understand the Climate Change debate from the skeptic's point of view.
Nuff said. 'Facts' is a volume worth the time of anyone with a serious interest in the debate, regardless of their point of view.





