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The Great Climate Change Debate: Karoly v Happer Paperback – March 1, 2022
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February 15, 2016, was the beginning of a debate on man-made climate change between two well-known experts in the field, Princeton Professor of Physics Dr. William Happer and University of Melbourne Atmospheric Sciences Professor Dr. David Karoly, hosted by James Barham and his team at TheBestSchools.org. Both have been heavily involved in atmospheric research since the 1980s. Happer believes that burning fossil fuels will have a minimal effect on climate but a large benefit to plant life and humanity. Karoly believes the opposite.
How certain is the conclusion by some scientists that burning fossil fuels will lead to a climate disaster? Only debates can ferret out their certainty or lack of it. Burning fossil fuels may cause some harm, but if we stop burning them, we will face certain harm. Which is worse? Debates educate the public, they are necessary. This is an in-depth look at both sides of the scientific debate between two prominent experts.
- Print length300 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAndy May Petrophysicist
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2022
- Dimensions6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101639446761
- ISBN-13978-1639446766
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Dr. Javier Vinós: "extraordinarily well written", "This is an important book, because the society has been robbed of its right to a wide scientific debate on an important subject, even though they are paying for only one side of the research."
Dr. Martin Capages Jr.: "Andy May has produced a very readable summary of the contentious debate and carefully explains both sides. In this well written book, you can read what the experts have to say with some clarity, consider their positions on this complex matter, and reach your own conclusions."
James Barham, the moderator of the debate: "I have looked your book over carefully. First, I think it is a great idea! It is certainly more user-friendly than the original debate was, as posted on TBS [TheBestSchools.org]. Second, I found neither anything to quarrel with substantively, nor even any typographical mistakes (admittedly, I was reading rapidly). In short, congratulations on a job extremely well done!"
David Siegel, best-selling author of Creating Killer Web Sites: "People who are enthusiastic about catastrophic climate change don't usually want to debate scientists who ask hard questions. In this rare exception, Andy May takes the reader on a journey into the minds of two men who stand on opposite sides of a scientific chasm. I challenge you to read it and decide for yourself which one has the moral authority and the facts on his side. As usual, Andy deconstructs many of the key concepts to make them accessible. Above all, it becomes clear why people who claim the sky is falling don't want to debate anyone as highly qualified as Will Happer on climate change. I highly recommend reading everything Andy May writes."
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- Publisher : Andy May Petrophysicist (March 1, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 300 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1639446761
- ISBN-13 : 978-1639446766
- Item Weight : 14.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
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Andy May is a writer, blogger, and author. He enjoys golf and traveling in his spare time. He retired from a 42-year career in petrophysics in 2016. He is also an editor for the popular climate change blog Wattsupwiththat.com where he has published numerous posts. He is the author of four books and the author or co-author of seven peer-reviewed papers on various geological, engineering and petrophysical topics. His personal blog is andymaypetrophysicist[.]com.
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Dr. Happer is a Distinguished Professor, Scientist and CO2-Expert who has a deep understanding of Science, Physics, Chemistry (especially CO2) and the Earth's Atmosphere and Climate.
He clearly understands that there is actually NO Man-Made Due to CO2 Global Threat, No Significant Warming for the last 25 years and that the Earth's Temperatures are "Insensitive" to Changes in CO2 Emissions and that there has Never been Any Correlation, much less Any Causation, of Global Warming (or even Global Cooling for that matter) in the last 570 million years!
Dr. Happer demonstrates that there is actually no imminent Global Warming Threat -- Just Naturally-Driven Climate Change.
The other side of the debate did not have a chance since they have absolutely no viable facts to support their AGW (Anthropocentric Global Warming Theory) which depends on significant CO2 Infrared-Warming as a part of the Greenhouse Effect when CO2-concentration is a mere 4% of all Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) and Water-Vapor (H2O in a gaseous state) is 95% and produces more GHG-warming effect & Clouds than Trace CO2 and the Remaining 1% of GHGs (i.e., Methane CH4 or "Cow Farts" and Nitrous Oxide N2O) which is 75-85% of the Greenhouse Effect by Water Vapor vs. trace CO2 of ~ 9% or a bit more.
Karoly ended up "Punting" by dropping out and his surrogate was destroyed in the end by the Truth presented by Dr. Happer!
There is something amiss when government and private enterprise are spending massively each year to correct a very slight problem-----and it's mostly financed by all of us as tax payers.


