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The Deniers Hardcover – April 1, 2008
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Lawrence Solomon
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Print length239 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherUNKNO
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Publication dateApril 1, 2008
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Dimensions6.39 x 0.98 x 9.36 inches
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ISBN-100980076315
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Guess he never met these guys
Dr. Edward Wegman--former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences--demolishes the famous "hockey stick" graph that launched the global warming panic.
Dr. David Bromwich--president of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology--says "it's hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now."
Prof. Paul Reiter--Chief of Insects and Infectious Diseases at the famed Pasteur Institute--says "no major scientist with any long record in this field" accepts Al Gore's claim that global warming spreads mosquito-borne diseases.
Prof. Hendrik Tennekes--director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute--states "there exists no sound theoretical framework for climate predictability studies" used for global warming forecasts.
Dr. Christopher Landsea--past chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones--says "there are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity."
Dr. Antonino Zichichi--one of the world's foremost physicists, former president of the European Physical Society, who discovered nuclear antimatter--calls global warming models "incoherent and invalid."
Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski--world-renowned expert on the ancient ice cores used in climate research--says the U.N. "based its global-warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false."
Prof. Tom V. Segalstad--head of the Geological Museum, University of Oslo--says "most leading geologists" know the U.N.'s views "of Earth processes are implausible."
Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu--founding director of the International Arctic Research Center, twice named one of the "1,000 Most Cited Scientists," says much "Arctic warming during the last half of the last century is due to natural change."
Dr. Claude Allegre--member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and French Academy of Science, he was among the first to sound the alarm on the dangers of global warming. His view now: "The cause of this climate change is unknown."
Dr. Richard Lindzen--Professor of Meteorology at M.I.T., member, the National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, says global warming alarmists "are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right."
Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov--head of the space research laboratory of the Russian Academy of Science's Pulkovo Observatory and of the International Space Station's Astrometria project says "the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."
Dr. Richard Tol--Principal researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, at Carnegie Mellon University, calls the most influential global warming report of all time "preposterous . . . alarmist and incompetent."
Dr. Sami Solanki--director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, who argues that changes in the Sun's state, not human activity, may be the principal cause of global warming: "The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures."
Prof. Freeman Dyson--one of the world's most eminent physicists says the models used to justify global warming alarmism are "full of fudge factors" and "do not begin to describe the real world."
Dr. Eigils Friis-Christensen--director of the Danish National Space Centre, vice-president of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, who argues that changes in the Sun's behavior could account for most of the warming attributed by the UN to man-made CO2.
And many more, all in Lawrence Solomon's devastating new book, The Deniers
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- Publisher : UNKNO; 1st edition (April 1, 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 239 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0980076315
- ISBN-13 : 978-0980076318
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.39 x 0.98 x 9.36 inches
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I only wish there were an updated version, as this is over 10 years old. .
The discussion of each Scientists trials and tribulations includes the unbelievable academic pressure to toe the line, to kowtow to the global warming alarmist beliefs of the majority of university movers and shakers, both in the administration as well as in the faculty. Valid Science that disagreed with the alarmist viewpoint was, and is, denigrated and scuttled, usually with scurrilous attacks on the person of the scientist, and a snobbish refusal to actually review and debate the science.
As the sub note to the title states, And those who are too fearful to do so. The unbelievable pressure that is put on these, and other, "deniers" is enormous. Careers have been ruined by these alarmists, with no validity to the alarmist's charges. The alarmists outspend the real scientists and their supporters 50 to 1. Alarmists try to refute this, stating that Exxon, and its entire corporate might, supported the real scientists, but this is absolutely false. It's fabricated data.
This book does have some difficulties, as some of the scientists and the author still believe that global warming is occurring, no matter how benign it may be, and how unnecessary it is to actually even tilt at the windmill of trying to do something about it, regardless of its natural or man-made causes. This viewpoint puts this book into the middle ground of reasonableness, but is still fails to truly point out the deliberate manipulation of data, the deliberate hiding of data, the deliberate invention of data by the alarmists.
Of course, this book was compiled before Climategate, so some aspects of the deliberate actions by the alarmists to distort, manipulate, deny, hide, and invent data, by their own admissions, cannot, and are not included. That, in itself is a shame. A new version of this book is needed. The paperback version (2010) includes some date. I highly recommend Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam by Brian Sussman.
The second chapter, The Case of the Disappearing Hockey Stick, thoroughly covers the intentional manipulation of science by Mann. Essentially, you could put your Mom's recipe for cookies into Mann's hockey stick formula, and come up with a hockey stick graph. The discredited hockey stick was still used by Al Gore (Mr. "I invented the Internet" himself) 4 years after it was thoroughly disassembled.
Fundamentally, there is no science to support Global Warming, or that mankind is causing global Warming. As Climategate exposed, even the alarmists admit that they are having trouble fooling everybody, since the globe stopped warming in 1998, and has actually, since then, cooled a little bit and then wandered sideways. This, of course, in the alarmist world, is impossible. CO2 has continued to climb, so there must be global warming is the mantra of the alarmists, and since some of the sideways years have been warm (i.e. close to 1998 and 1934) they have been amongst the warmer years in the last 130 years that we have actual temperature records for.
As an engineer, who has worked with some bright scientists, I understand technical stuff, whether automotive or climate or whatever, really well. I have spent close to a couple of hundred hours studying climate change, having read over 30 books and hundreds of articles, and attended lectures and seminars. I have looked at Al Gore's movie and read his book. I have read alarmist material, and overall, having seen glaciers in Alaska, within sight of each other, that are one of them, advancing, and the other, retreating, that makes their arguments specious and foolish. I was never pressured at work, and I have never been pressured after retirement, by any evil corporation or anyone else. I don't personally know any alarmists, but I do know some folks that are so ignorant they believe that we ought to do something about it, just in case. The problem is that we can huff, and we can puff, but we cannot change mother nature at this level, and whether we will ever be able to do so is subject to debate.
As even the National Geographic folks, alarmists all, admit, when we came out of the last ice age, and the earth warmed up about 8 degrees, that started 18,000 years ago, and ended about 10,000 years ago, that was entirely caused by the cycles of the sun.
Wow. No SUV's! No Coal fired Power plants! The Sun? Of all the darned things! Today, it is still the cycles of the sun interacting with cloud formation and we don't know all what else yet. That is where we need to spend our scientific dollars, really finding out what causes climate change, up and down. Until we know, trying to do something is the proverbial into the wind experience.
However, as the Climategate alarmists know, 1934 was the warmest year in the last 130 years. After that, the world slowly cooled until 1980. Then the world slowly warmed until 1998. Nevertheless, 1998 was still a fraction of a degree cooler than 1934. Moreover, no year since 1998 has even been as warm as 1998, even if some years have been close.
In other words, global warming stopped in 1934, while the CO2 level has continued to clime. These facts, in the minds of the alarmists, are impossible, so they deny science and descend into personal attacks.
CO2 works as a minor component of the earth's global blanket. Water Vapor is over 95% of our global warming gasses, so if you really want to cool the earth, cut down on water vapor. Good luck with that last. CO2 does not act as a linear component. As the concentration increases, it has less and less effect. Plus, in our active biosphere, plants react and grow at increased levels, and use much greater quantities of CO2. All without us raising a single finger. CO2 works in the lab, but not in our active biosphere, and it never will. Mother nature also provides about 98% of all the CO2 emissions.
The ice cores that Al Gore uses in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which should be title A Convenient Lie, distort, manipulate, and misrepresent this date. Studied at a fine enough level to discriminate, the actual ice core data shows that the temperature goes up or down, and 800 to a thousand years later, the CO2 level goes up or down. The actual scientific data shows that CO2 is a trailing indicator, or, to put it more bluntly, Global Warming and Global Cooling cause the CO2 level to change, not the other way around. The medieval warming, which, by every indicator, was significantly warmer than today, is the event 800 to a 1000 years ago which is causing the CO2 level to increase now.
The preceding data is fundamental to any discussion. The alarmists deny all of this, so to call them science deniers is actually as polite as it can get.
This is a worthwhile book. There are many others, that must be combined with this, to understand the whole story, but this is a great beginning.
Until then, all the science deniers out there should stop contributing to their silly beliefs, and stop exhaling. Stopping all that hot air will easily cool everything.
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