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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science Paperback – Illustrated, July 16, 2009

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Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did not drive climate change. No runaway greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred during times of excessively high carbon dioxide. During past glaciations, carbon dioxide was higher than it is today. The non-scientific popular political view is that humans change climate. Do we have reason for concern about possible human-induced climate change?
This book's 504 pages and over 2,300 references to peer-reviewed scientific literature and other authoritative sources engagingly synthesize what we know about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air. Importantly, in a parallel to his 1994 book challenging “creation science,” Telling Lies for God, Ian Plimer describes Al Gore's book and movie An Inconvenient Truth as long on scientific “misrepresentations.” “Trying to deal with these misrepresentations is somewhat like trying to argue with creationists,” he writes, “who misquote, concoct evidence, quote out of context, ignore contrary evidence, and create evidence ex nihilo.”

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"...the best book on science and scientists I have ever read."

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"...a brilliantly argued book... Heaven and Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence."

Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing; Illustrated edition (July 16, 2009)
Language: : English
Paperback : 504 pages
ISBN-10 : 1589794729
ISBN-13 : 978-1589794726
Item Weight : 1.65 pounds
Dimensions : 6.06 x 1.22 x 9.07 inches

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C. Hillhouse

Amazing book with over 2

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2015

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Amazing book with over 2,300 footnoted references. It absolutely puts the climate changers (blaming mankind) to shame! The amount of fudging of data that they use is incredible. On page page 416 he points out that the Hawaii station raw CO2 is " "edited" by an operator who deletes what may be considered poor data. Some 82% of the raw infra-red CO2 measurement data is "editied" leaving just 18% of the raw data measurements for statistical analysis". What true scientist (in their right mind) would reject 82% of their measurements?! At another point (pg 271-272) he shows that "Al Gore exaggerated the impact of global warming on Antarctia about 50-fold"!! Page 371" This is why in past times when the atmospheric CO2 concentration was more than 25 time higher than the present value, there has been no runaway greenhouse or "tipping points"." Page 402 "New high resolution studies over the last 450,000 years of Vostok core show that at all times of cold to warm transitions, temperature rise is followed by a rise in CO2 some 800 years later. Hence the rise of CO2 in past climates is a response to warming, not the cause."!!!

The fraud in the work of the climate warmers (blaming mankind) is incredible (and probably criminal). Get this book if you really want to know the real science behind this topic.

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Marvin D. Pipher

An `independent' climatologist takes a hard look at global warming

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014

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The premise of this book is that "Man-Made Global Warming" is a fraud perpetrated by a small group of pseudo-scientists and ideologues in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and promoted by environmental extremists; all for political purposes. And this book's author attempts to prove it. He does so by reporting the results of more than 2300 scientific studies in the disciplines of archaeology, astronomy, atmospheric studies, climate, geology, history, palaeoclimate, and solar physics which bear on the Earth's climate and the causes-and-effects of climate change throughout the Earth's multi-billion-year history.

The results of these independent studies, according to this author, prove beyond any reasonable scientific doubt that:

1) Carbon Dioxide (CO2), which comprises about 0.039% of the Earth's atmosphere, is not a pollutant, as claimed, but, rather, is a fundamental building block of life on Earth.

2) Due to `natural' causes, the Earth's temperature has been trending upward since the end of the Little Ice Age; a frigid period in the Earth's recent past.

3) All forms of life on Earth thrive when the atmospheric temperature is higher than it is today and fail when it is significantly lower (cold has been the killer, not warmth).

4) There is no correlation between the concentration of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheric temperature.

5) The concentration of the CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere has been much higher in the past than it is today, both in times when the Earth was warmer and in times when it was cooler.

6) CO2 derived from human activity produces only 0.1% of global warming and there is a maximum threshold for CO2, after which an increase in CO2 has very little effect on atmosphere warming.

7) The historical record clearly shows that the concentration of the trace gas CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere lags the Earth's temperature (Ergo: CO2 is not and never has been the driver of temperature change.).

Also, according to this author, when, in 1998, "Mother Earth" refused to submit to the IPCC's dire prediction of cataclysmic global warming and instead initiated the global cooling which we now enjoy; "man-made global warming" somehow morphed into "man-caused climate change." This, it seems has many added benefits. The activities of modern man, particularly in capitalist countries like the United States, can now be blamed for almost anything: heat, cold, rain, ice, snow, famine, drought, dead polar bears, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis, you name it. Who could argue with that?

All of this led this book's author to reach some dire conclusions of his own; which he summarized in the first paragraph of this book's final chapter, stating that: "We are facing the greatest global threat in my three score and two years. It is not global warming. It is the threat from policy responses to perceived global warming and the demonizing of dissent. These policies also threaten freedoms and the nature of science and religion. Policy changes have the ability to reduce base load energy supplies of electricity that underpin employment and the standard of living."

The most surprising thing to me about this book, however, wasn't the depth of the author's research or even his dire conclusion; but that, despite its subject matter, this was such an easy and at times almost fun book to read. I particularly enjoyed the author's sometimes not-so-subtle humor which he injects from time to time.

Bottom line: I think this book should be read widely and thoughtfully considered. But it should not be taken as the definitive work and final assessment of 'man-made global warming.' To understand why, I suggest you read 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars by Michael E. Mann and MORE IMPORTANTLY 'Climate of Extremes' by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling Jr. which is, perhaps, the best book currently available on the subject of 'climate change.'

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J. Jaeger

Heaven and Earth was recommended to me by a geology professor at a nearby ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014

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Heaven and Earth was recommended to me by a geology professor at a nearby college. He may have a slight bias because the book was written by another geologist, but then again, these gentlemen seem to be as objective and honest as the physicist, Dr. Iver Giaever, was when he resigned in disgust from the American Physical Society over its characterization of global warming as "incontrovertible." Incidentally, Giaever was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, so any claim of his ignorance or opposition to "science" is utter nonsense. "That great ball of heat in the sky drives climate," says Plimer. Just so. It takes approximately 22 years for humans to increase carbon dioxide by a miniscule 1 part per million. Meanwhile, water vapor accounts for 95% of the greenhouse effect. But those with their noses in the trillion dollar research trough focus almost exclusively on carbon dioxide, and withhold its many benefits. Plants prosper in higher concentrations of CO2 to name but one example.

Thirty years ago, the fear card was played by predicting global cooling. Remember too how the so-called "experts" of the Club of Rome predicted worldwide catastrophe from mass starvation. In fact, everyone on earth could be fed adequately except for the vile politics of third world cesspools such as Somalia and Ethopia.

The claim of anthropogenic global warming "is contrary to validated knowledge from solar physics, astronomy, history, archaeology, and geology." Why? Simply for money. Trillions of dollars of money This book is one of many that you must rely on for facts and clear thinking, rather than engaging in the fear-mongering hypocrisy of those like Al Gore, who has never practiced what he has preached while earning about a billion dollars for himself.

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Wavetop

An invaluable insight into climate effects.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2018

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I have only worked through the early chapters of this book, but found it both impressive and informative, with detailed discussion on factors affecting Earth's climate.

Page 125, quotes work by scientists using sun spot data and sun cycle behaviour to predict cooler temperatures in 2012-2015, leading to a further reduction in temperatures toward 2030-2040.

This book was printed in 2009 and the initial part of the above prediction has been proved to be correct, while the IPCC predictions have been proved to be wrong.

Sun cycles and sunspot activity have been a more effective indicator of climate effects than all the computer games played by the IPCC.

However there is much more than sun spots in this detailed presentation of the many factors at work in the way this planet operates.

What we need is more real science and less political posturing by the climate activists, who are endangering the planet by demeaning the public's respect for science and hindering the necessary task of finding the best ways of helping humanity through the planet's ever changing climate, which is likely to be a more damaging cooling trend, affecting food production for a rapidly growing population.

I will update this review as I make further progress with this book.

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Philip M

An important and essential work of reference proving the natural causes of climate change.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2018

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Heaven and Earth is a thorough and detailed history of the Earth’s climate and how it has helped enlighten our current understand of today’s Climate Change. Professor Ian Plimer has achieved this by reference to over 2,300 scientific papers and publications offering validated multidisciplinary evidence from geology, archaeology, history and astronomy – and many others.

Heaven and Earth is logically arranged over 8 chapters – Introduction, History, Sun, Earth, Ice, Water, Air and Et Moi. This last chapter is an analytical yet passionate round-up of the evidence against the alarmist predictions of the Global Warmists. The previous 6 chapters explain the detailed science behind each of the main drivers of climate. Inevitably they have some repetition, for example, the causes and effects of the various Ice Ages and interglacial periods. The text also would benefit with editing, but I found some of the repeated data helpful because of the extraordinary level of detail and information which otherwise could be hard to digest.

In Heaven and Earth Plimer has created a massive work of reference about Climate Change. Sometimes it is a little hard going because of the shear volume of data and frequent poor editing, but it is a fascinating and enlightening read. Professor Plimer is highly respected as one of the world’s leading experts in the field of climate research, making this book an essential and important work of reference for anyone involved with or interested in climate science.

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Gabby Hayes

Global Warming and Cooling is NORMAL , Greenhouse Gases are GOOD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2019

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This book gives the real facts, no bull about 'man made' and covers everything that you need to know, especially that all that you hear on the subject is generally a complete distortion of the history of climate change. Looking after the planet is everybody's responsibility but climate change is beyond our capabilities, currently we may be heading for a little ice age. The sun is actually a Pulsar and its output varies on a regular cycle; there are other cycles such as its position in its orbit relative to the Earth and and its position in its 24,000 year orbit round the galactic centre.

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Jeff

Marvellous - should be compulsory reading in Schools and Universities

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2017

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Highly detailed, very convincing, a tsunami of real science and common sense in a sea of unproven ideology. You'd need a brain transplant to believe that climate change has anything to do with human activity after reading this.

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What really causes climate changes?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2019

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anyone concerned about Human caused climate change MUST read this book. Very well written in a language that even I could understand. Ian Plimer takes us through the whole history of planet earth and the changes to climate that occurred .He explains in great detail that it is not possible for human emissions of carbon-dioxide to have much if any effect on climate.
Read this book!!

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