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Climate Change: The Facts Kindle Edition

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Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change. Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:

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.

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An excellent new book --Barbara Kay, The National Post (Canada)

A great gift for any friend with an open mind who enjoys a good read --Jay Lehr, PhD, The Heartlander

A fascinating new book --Matt Ridley, Quadrant (Australia)

About the Author

The authors of Climate Change: The Facts number some of the most prominent dissenters from Big Climate alarmism, including scientists Richard S Lindzen and Willie Soon, recently targeted by grandstanding congressmen seeking to get them fired from their jobs; Nigel Lawson, Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer; Ross McKitrick, whose analysis inflicted irreparable damage on the famous global-warming "hockey stick"; and Mark Steyn, currently being sued by the creator of the self-same hockey stick, Michael E Mann, in a landmark free-speech case. Plus John Abbot & Jennifer Marohasy, Andrew Bolt, Robert M Carter, Rupert Darwall, James Delingpole, Christopher Essex, Stewart W Franks, Kesten C Green & J Scott Armstrong, Donna Laframboise, Bernie Lewin, Patrick J Michaels, Joanne Nova, Garth W Paltridge, Ian Plimer and Anthony Watts.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00S5L5Y0W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stockade Books (January 11, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 11, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2446 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 389 pages
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Mark Steyn
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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.

His most recent CD is his cat album, dedicated to his own beloved cat Marvin: Feline Groovy: Songs for Swingin' Cats was a Number One jazz bestseller, a Top Twenty album on the Billboard chart, and a Top Thirty album on Amazon's pop chart. "A Marshmallow World", his Christmas single with Jessica Martin, reached Number Seven on Amazon's easy listening bestsellers, and Number 41 on their main pop chart. Their subsequent full-length Christmas album, Making Spirits Bright, reached Number Four on the jazz chart. "Nine Lives", the song he co-wrote with Kevin Amos, was a Top Thirty smash on the Moldovan Hit Parade.

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.

Steyn hosts The Mark Steyn Show, which airs every evening Monday to Thursday. He also presents Steyn's Song of the Week every Sunday afternoon on Serenade Radio. In New York he can be heard with his longtime EIB comrade, Bo Snerdley, every Tuesday on 77 WABC.

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.

With fans around the world, Steyn has appeared on stages across the planet from Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His 2016 nationwide tour of Australia was sold out coast to coast. He has spoken in the Canadian Parliament, the Ontario Parliament, the Danish Parliament, and the Australian Parliament, where he was introduced by the then Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop.

Over the years, Mark Steyn's writing on politics, arts and culture has been published in almost every major newspaper around the English-speaking world, including Britain's Daily Telegraph, Canada's National Post, The Australian, The Irish Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many more.

Steyn's other books include A Song For The Season, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade, Mark Steyn From Head To Toe and The Face Of The Tiger. His personal view of musical theatre, Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, is an acknowledged classic published to critical acclaim in London, and to somewhat sniffier notices in New York.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2015
PRO: A wide-ranging collection of 21 essays that thoroughly debunks the myth that climate science is "settled". It also relates some of the history of the CAGW (Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) movement and how it became the "consensus" despite the lack of real scientific evidence. Most importantly, it cites the growing evidence that climate sensitivity is low after all.

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".
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Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024
If you want honest, unbiased information about climate change, this is the book for you. It is impossible to get facts and honest data from the mainstream media and government subsidized scientist. This book pulls the curtain back on the climate scam that has been going on for a couple of decades now. Lots of data, facts, and perspectives from a lot of reliable and renowned sources.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2015
This book is essentially a collection of essays about climate change from the skeptics point of view. The essays are divided into 3 categories.

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.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2015
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.
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Richard
5.0 out of 5 stars Clarity and truth
Reviewed in Canada on February 26, 2024
I can't imagine Amazon allowing this review to be viewed, and so I'll be brief in my assessment. This book debunks everything the globalists have tried to promote about "climate change." There are climate anomalies, but climate is dynamic. In fact, more of these anomalies are occurring because of artificial weather manipulation. This book essentially looks at climate as an ongoing dynamic event. Carbon dioxide emissions are not affecting climate at all. In fact, it's at a low of .04% of all atmospheric gasses. Read the book and learn.....and this is not the only source that debunks so-called "climate change." RM
Basil Nortz
5.0 out of 5 stars The true facts as opposed to the popular narrative.
Reviewed in Brazil on October 9, 2022
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.
DIETMAR HEINZ BUETO
5.0 out of 5 stars Neutral , independant facts seen from a more scientific angle ...
Reviewed in Germany on February 28, 2024
Must read. Scientific facts rather than religious arguments ...
Phil Toler
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2023
Objective and a good read. Comprehensively covers the many different areas of justifiable skepticism. Well backed up with many references
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Ulisse
5.0 out of 5 stars Da leggere!
Reviewed in Italy on February 7, 2019
Una visione ben documentata, che mette fortemente in discussione la scientificità della narrativa attuale sull'aumento delle temperature.

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