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This book explains the science of climate change in plain language and shows that the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists who are skeptical that humans are the main cause of global warming are a fringe minority―and have a well-established history of being wrong.

Although some politicians, pundits, and members of the public do not believe it, global warming predictions by mainstream climate scientists have been remarkably accurate while those made by climate deniers have not. And if mainstream global warming predictions continue to prove correct, the window of opportunity to prevent a climate catastrophe is quickly closing. This book is the first to illustrate the accuracy―and inaccuracy―of global warming predictions made by mainstream climate scientists and by climate contrarians from the 1970s to the present day. Written in simple, non-technical language that provides an accessible explanation of key climate science concepts, the book will appeal to general audiences without previous knowledge about climate science.

Author Dana Nuccitelli, an environmental scientist and risk assessor, discusses some key climate discoveries dating back to the 19th century and debunks myths such as the idea that climate scientists and climate models have grossly over-predicted global warming. He addresses recent findings of a 97-percent consensus in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that humans are causing global warming―a nearly unanimous agreement that formed in the early 1990s and has grown through the present day. Nuccitelli also discusses what the future climate might look like if current trends continue unabated, and what we as a global society need to do to prevent a climate catastrophe.

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“Climatology vs. Psuedoscience does something that has never been done before: it takes specific climate change projections made over the years by pioneering and mainstream climate scientists, and those made by skeptics, comparing them with subsequent temperature measurements to see which has proven a better predictor of what came to pass. . . . [Y]ou owe it to yourself to put your skepticism to the test by reading this book and learning just whose science has proven true.” ―The Barrie Examiner

“Nuccitelli's writing is clear and his explanations lucid. . . . [T]he primary audience for this book is likely to be the much larger group of climate educators, communicators, and interested citizens looking for solid, well-reasoned arguments
against some of the most common contrarian claims. For them, this book will stand as a well-written and invaluable resource.” ―National Center for Science Education

“The book includes the best available short account of the history of climate science and describes climate change models and controversies in brief but incisive and well-illustrated detail. . . . Nuccitelli's book is particularly valuable for its succinct treatment of key disputes without the heated rhetoric. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners.” ―Choice

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Dana Nuccitelli is an environmental scientist and risk assessor at a private environmental consulting firm in California.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Praeger; Illustrated edition (March 3, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1440832013
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440832017
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.56 x 9.21 inches

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Richard S

Book for those who want to understand climate change

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2015

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Great book if you want to really know what is going on. As more change emerges and economic interests, especially oil, are threatened, it becomes more important to know fact from fiction. This book covers that well going back to 1900's and updating to what is going on now. This book backs up the real world with insights and facts about both scientific study results and those who try to thwart any change so their money flow continues uninterrupted.

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An informative book

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2015

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This is a pretty good work overall that covers the different stages of pseudoscience over some of the range of climate science. In particular various prominent climate models and some of their physical world inputs. It is nice to see these laid out clearly in one place. The work also looks at problems with "climate skeptics" or denier arguments in the context of these models. This is mostly done by pointing out flaws in the underlying premise of what would seem, by the every day joe, as being reasonable.

A fair bit of the book, at least a chapter, is devoted to the 97% consensus works, as the author was involved in one of the studies, Some of the attacks on it and so on. It is an interesting section to read and recommended to fully understand any of the non-controversy over the issue. You might as well ask a biologist of evolution is a lie or not. The number would be the same or higher.

My only criticism of the book is not because of the work itself but my expectation. I generally was hoping the work would focus a bit more on denier arguments and their problems in relation to real science. The book does that, to be sure, but I was hoping that it be a longer work and cover more of the points used. As all of them have the same defects the author does a good job pointing out.

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Janette S.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017

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Excellent and very helpful

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david clark

Great book of Pseudoscience

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2018

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great book written by a liberal Berkley student,I enjoy reading books of FACT NOT CON GESTURE,WHICH MOST CLIMATOLOGY BOOKS WRITTEN, AND PAYED FOR BY FOR VERY RICH DEMOCRATS,FACTS WILL ALLAYS DICTATE TRUTH

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Stuart McHugh

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2015

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excellent, worth reading

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Gregory T. Laden

This book fills an important and wide open niche.

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2015

Dana Nuccitelli has become one of the key people in the international discussion of climate change science. He is co-writer with John Abraham at the Climate Consensus - the 97% blog at the Guardian, and has contributed hundreds of entries to John Cook’s famous site SkepticalScience.com. He has measurably helped people to understand climate change science, as well as the nuances of the false debate based over climate pseudoscience generated by science deniers.

And, he’s written a book!

Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics fills a wide open niche in the climate science discussion. Dana powers through the literature on climate science, nearly comprehensively identifying and describing instances of the predictions, projections, or assertions made by major climate scientists as well as major climate science deniers. (Though the distinction between denier and non-denier emerged later in the full time frame addressed in the book.) Simply put, Dana compares the two to see which is correct: the projection that human generated greenhouse gas pollution warms the Earth and changes the climate, or the projection that it does not.

It turns out it does! But you knew that. But what you might not have realized is the overall time frame of how this situation has developed. Dana skillfully documents the deeply disturbing fact that the issue of global warming (and related things) has been settled for a very long time. Were it not for mainly fossil fuel industry funded anti-science activists, we would not be having this discussion today, and Dana would not have had to write his book. Rather, scientist would be focused on figuring out the remaining and important details of how the Earth’s climate system responds to human pollution as well as natural changes, and policy makers would be busy working out how to keep the Carbon in the ground. We probably would have had a price on Carbon years ago, and we’d probably be running our civilizations off of a very high and ever increasing percentage of clean (non fossil carbon) energy. But no, those denialists had to ruin it for everyone with their fake skepticism.

Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics is engagingly written, clear, accurate, non-technical but not watered down. If you know the stuff in this book you can be more confident than ever having those conversations with with your friends Denialist Dan and Warmest Willie. In fact, I would recommend Climatology Versus Pseudoscience along side Michael Mann’s book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines for a comprehensive treatment of the history of both denialism and the science itself.

Dana covers the early days of climate science, discusses the “Astounding Accuracy of Early Climate Models (Chapter 3), discusses the development of the scientific consensus on climate change, and provides an excellent overview of the current situation with greenhouse gas pollution caused climate change.

I strongly recommend this book for the general reader, but I would also suggest it for use in certain classes, either in high school or college. If you are a teacher and want to thoroughly cover the “Debate” over climate science, this is the book.

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Bruce

The climate debate is over. It is time for a carbon fee or a carbon tax.

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2016

This book does an excellent job showing how "fair and balanced reporting" pits one point of view against another.

One point of view is represented by the 3% of scientists who somehow do not believe man's CO2 emissions are leading to global warming.

The other point of view is represented by the 97% of scientists who believe the earth is warming, and that man's CO2 emissions are a major cause of that warming.

The book describes Professor Don Easterbrook's predictions that the earth will cool, and shows that the earth has warmed and not cooled as Professor Easterbrook predicted. A graph on page 66 shows that over 90% of scientific papers have endorsed man made global warming since 1993. Unfortunately mainstream media continues the "debate" between the 3% saying man's CO2 emissions are not a problem, and the 97% of scientific papers saying man's CO2 emissions are causing global warming.

23 years have passed since over 90% of scientists have said man's CO2 emissions are a problem. The "debate" has been settled. It is time to put a fee on coal, oil and natural gas as they come out of the ground, and give that fee back to U.S. citizens. It is time to debate "how high should this carbon fee be?" Stanford Scientists say each tonne of CO2 emitted in 2015 did $220 of damage world wide. Should coal, oil and natural gas be assessed at $220 a tonne? Should that be a fee returned to citizens? Or should that be a tax used to fund solar panels, wind farms, hydroelectric dams and other renewable energy sources?

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Brad Keyes

Not bad for science fiction

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2015

If you're looking for a work of science fiction detailing a vast conspiracy similar to Naomi Oreskes' 'Merchants of Doubt,' this may be the book for you.

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Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2017

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This is a brilliant book. Everything is expertly, succinctly and simply explained. If you are interested in climate change get it!

Susan Truman

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2016

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