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R. M. Carter

Climate: The Counter-Consensus - A Palaeoclimatologist Speaks (Independent Minds) Paperback – May 1, 2010

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The counter-consensus to quasi-scientific hype and induced panic on climate change is at last assembling. Climate: the Counter Consensus examines, with thoroughness and impartial expertise, the so-called facts of global warming that are churned out and unquestioningly accepted, while the scientific and media establishments stifle or deride any legitimate expression of an opposing view.

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200 pages
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English
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Stacey International
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May 1, 2010
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5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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1906768293
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978-1906768294
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The counter-consensus to quasi-scientific hype and induced panic on climate change is at last assembling. Climate: the Counter Consensus examines, with thoroughness and impartial expertise, the so-called facts of global warming that are churned out and unquestioningly accepted, while the scientific and media establishments stifle or deride any legitimate expression of an opposing view.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stacey International; 1st edition (May 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1906768293
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1906768294
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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Michael Lasher

Excellent, indispensable, honest, professional and more.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2017

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Impeccably written, this is an outstanding and relatively concise compendium of evidence and arguments against the alarmists' position and claims, from the geological record to the consequences of spin media put on the information they're fed by the IPCC, this book serves an an excellent insight and read into what is indisputably the most politicized issue in the history of scientific research. It is neither too long nor too short and is highly educational for the hopefully soon-to-be apostate alarmist, the sceptic and the 'deniar' alike. With literally hundreds of references and footnotes, this work by the late Professor Carter is written with clarity and high degree of professionalism. This is not propaganda, obviously, because Professor Carter has the FACTS on his side, unlike the alarmists, and he backs up what he says constantly. Truthful, with excellent word choices, this tome of knowledge on this subject is a surprisingly enjoyable read and most certainly belongs in the collection of anyone and everyone who has an interest in this subject, or for that matter, the truth in general about anything, especially in our Brave New World of globalism and mass manipulation of public opinion.

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Ian Fenn

Read this and then tell a Libtard what's really going on.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2017

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If you want to understand climate change and what if any effect man has on it, then understanding Palio climatology is essential and this book is well written and easy to understand. Want to destroy Liberal climate religious sheep? Read this and realise that the climate change political science being forced down the throats of the gullible is not science in any real sense of the word. Studying climate over many hundreds of thousands of years is real science, and what it says to us is..... The real data says there is nothing to worry about, and nothing needs to be done or can be done.
That is not to say we need to clean up our act, but that is happening already. Climate change caused by mans activity is so marginal, if indeed anything at all that we should drop this madness, and call it out for what it is........ Nonsense.

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George E. Penfold

It's too bad the MSM ( mainly stupid media) can't be trusted ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2017

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Every book I read these days exposes the lies governments have imposed on the people they supposedly represent. No doubt we will eventually see the exposure of this climate change fraud for our money, at that time we must ensure that those who orchestrated this fraud are charged, jailed and all their profits and possessions seized as proceeds of the world's most horrendous crime. how many have died due to this greed. Also, the global warming lie as a minimum should necessitate the more than welcome outright scrapping of the UN (useless nations).
It's too bad the MSM ( mainly stupid media) can't be trusted to do their jobs and advise the public of how politicians cater only to the wealthy, and the hell with the little guys.

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Windy

A must read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2021

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A tour de force by the late great Robert M. Carter in refuting all the main tenets of climate alarmism. He paid heavily for bucking the government narrative as his university cut ties with him after forty years of stellar service.

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Clear Focus

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2010

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Remove the hype and spin, lay out the facts, and what's left is a clear and highly intelligent discussion of climate change. Written with frequent references to the subject's debate and treatment in Australia, the book draws on the author's scientific approach in assessing the historic record of climate change going back from present to millions of years ago. Probably most succinct is the evidence provided showing that increases in carbon dioxide follow, not precede, warming. The records and evidence from the last few thousand years make clear that there are regular natural fluctuations of temperature, and current world conditions and trends are wholly within the historical record. What the historical record does demonstrate, though, is that the natural fluctuation does and will continue to have significant impacts of life on Earth.

The author does not dismiss the potential effects which can be posed by climate change, but his discussion rather challenges the reader to focus on the debate as one of determining appropriate strategies for contributing to our at present very poor understanding of climate change drivers, and ultimately the actions which can be taken to prepare for the inevitable changes.

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Green Scene

Are we any closer to the truth ?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2011

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For investigative and skeptical minds Professor Bob Carters presentation of a counter consensus on climate change is for most part a worthwhile read. It is useful to understand what climate change skeptics are challenging in the mainstream climate science debate. Professor Carter lays these challenges out well in the first half of the book.
The arguments, although not new ones, presented in the first half of the book are well supported and has you delving deeper into this complex climate science subject.
The now famous "hockey stick graph" is presented again and argued from Carters perspective along with his assertions on the "Urban heat island effect", plus a wide range of topics. Many of these arguments are strongly refuted by mainstream climate scientists.
Rather than the concise approach of a scientist, the later part of the book lapses into emotive politico rhetoric with Carter taking a swipe at some very well qualified colleagues not to mention the IPCC. Carters arguments become less credible in this environment and may leave you unconvinced.

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vincit veritas

An Extremely Well Written Book on Climate and What is Really Going On

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2011

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I have read more than a dozen books on Climate Change and this book stands out head and shoulders above all of the other books on both sides of the issue. It is easy to understand and the author is not afraid to take each of the issues head on. Professor Carter has very succinctly explained that science is always testing theories and laws of science and from this true knowledge is derived. If you are a true believer on either side of the issue I think you will be impressed with both the breadth and the depth of the coverage of the subject. This book will certainly make want to read on in your own investigation and certainly make you a more informed person on the subject. Congratulations to Professor Carter on a great book and clearly an outstanding contribution to the public in helping them understand a complex subject.

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Thorough and comprehensive factual and rational rebuttals of watermelon lunacy.
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William Geddes

BEST SCIENTIFIC INPUT TO THE CLIMATE DEBATE.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 1, 2019

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In view of Theresa May’s insane legal requirement for the UK to become “carbon neutral” by 2050, plus the uneducated ravings of a sixteen year old Swedish school girl - - I thought I would, in order to reassure myself that the world has not gone completely mad, re-read the excellent "Climate:The Counter Consensus (a Palaeoclimatologist Speaks)" by the late Professor Robert Carter. In the first half of his book Carter sets forth in detail the science which underlies the climate debate, using language which is clearly intelligible to all, including the layman. Herein lies the book’s unique value, for he makes several points which are rarely, if ever heard in the debate. The two most important of these are:
1). Less temperature bang for every carbon dioxide buck (as he puts it). Most laymen assume that the greenhouse effect is a directly linear one. But it is not. A negative logarithmic relationship exists between the addition of CO2 to the atmosphere and consequential radiative heating, which means that each incremental amount of extra CO2 exerts a lesser heating effect. This phenomenon is shown perfectly in his Fig.15.
2). In line with Henry’s Law CO2 goes into solution in the oceans in proportion to its partial pressure in the atmosphere and is then precipitated as limestone or sequestered by marine organisms - and It has been calculated that the burning of all currently available fossil fuel resources would increase atmospheric CO2 concentration by just 20 percent.

So why all the fuss about CO2? It’s a False Alarm!
It is worth buying Carter’s book for these first four chapters alone, but in the second half of the book he focuses on the political and socio-economic aspects of the debate, including, for example, noble cause corruption and the precautionary principle, and drawing our attention to the fact that over $100 billion per year is spent on climate change research- so many careers, reputations and businesses now rest on this newly created industry.
Donald Trump said that "global warming" was a hoax. But "hoax is not the appropriate term: the correct word is "scam". It is the biggest scientific and economic scam in history.
the book was published in 2008 and unfortunately it is now out of print - and used copies are excessively expensive (but worth it!). It is a worthy sequel to Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth and an authoritative forerunner to Gregory Wrightstone’s Inconvenient Facts.
Second edition please!
RIP Robert Carter.
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F R Williams

Disreputable and dishonest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 22, 2018

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As someone who has long been convinced about the reality of climate change and man's role in it, I bought this book to see how the counter case was being made. I have to admit I have not read it all, mainly because I hadn't got very far into it before I had found several examples of how the science was being misrepresented and distorted, including at least on graph on which the axes had been modified to create a very false impression, especially when exptrapolated. This is pure dishonesty.

Such books are persuasive to those who start from a sceptical point of view and are looking for confirmation, far less so to those of us who have studied the subject over a long time perspective, where possible sourcing information from reputable scientific journals rather than from newspaper articles and blog sites.

Climate change resulting from man's emissions was predicted as long ago as the late 19th century, with the principles of the Greenhouse Effect demonstrated both mathematically (from basic principals of physics) and empirically under laboratory conditions. As we have learned more about the interaction of these effects with other global and solar phenomena we have been able to explain quite clearly the trends in mean global temperature we have seen over the last 150 years or so. Models that exclude the effect of greenhouse gases show quite close agreement with temporal fluctuations in temperature, but without the increasing trend. It is only when the greenhouse gas effects are added to the models that they show the trend of increase over the last several decades. In other words, taking into account everything we know about the climate and how it works, global warming over the last century or so can only be explained by taking into account the Greenhouse Effect and our emissions of greenhouse gases.

It is no surprise that the most sceptical voices are those of non scientists, whilst almost all scientists across all disciplines agree that the climate is warming continually and that the increasing trend in global temperatures is anthropogenic in origin.

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