Way back in February 1990, "Reader's Digest" published my report, "What Is the Truth About Global Warming?" To produce that layman's primer, I spent about six months investigating the topic. I interviewed the top climate scientists at the alphabet soup of government agencies: NCAR, NOAA, EPA, and NASA (including NASA's Dr. James Hansen, whose alarmist congressional testimony in the summer of 1988 set off the modern "global warming" scare). I also interviewed a lot of university-affiliated climatologists. I read the major books on the topic of global warming, plus a host of key scientific papers.
What struck me as I read Dr. Roy Spencer's short book is how little has changed in the three decades since Dr. Hansen touched off the global-warming frenzy -- and how closely his conclusions track with those I reached in 1990. The vision of cataclysmic anthropogenic global warming (AGW) remains a theory in search of empirical support. Mother Nature -- including glaciers, sea levels, storm frequency and intensity, drought patterns, wildfires, etc. -- stubbornly refuses to comply with the computerized climate models that forecast dire events from increasing atmospheric CO2. The history of global temperature changes shows that they *precede* changes in atmospheric CO2 by hundreds of years -- which is, causally, the opposite sequence of what we'd expect if CO2 was indeed *driving* temperature increases. And the AGW portion of any climate changes we see remains so tiny and petty that it is still impossible to find or quantify its "signal" from the overwhelming "noise" contributed by nature itself.
Al Gore has been an indefatigable cheerleader for the Climate Alarmist Industry for three decades, now. His book "Earth in the Balance" and documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" introduced millions to gross misinformation, pseudo-scientific claptrap, and outright lies about climate change. More recently, he produced a new movie, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," along with a companion book. This time, the public, weary of his decades of fear-mongering, has almost completely ignored the Boy Who Has Been Crying Wolf for so long.
Dr. Roy Spencer's "An Inconvenient Deception" may be the final nail in the coffin of this charlatan's tattered reputation -- and (one hopes) of the Climate Alarmism Industry. Focusing on Mr. Gore's movies, this eminent former senior climatologist at NASA takes us on a whirlwind tour -- and withering refutation -- of his movies' sensationalistic claims. In clear, uncomplicated language, he also offers a terrific layman's primer about climate, temperature, and the related phenomena, such as glaciers, sea level rise, and storm patterns. Finally, he explains the fallacies of trying to ban carbon-based energy production and replace it with "renewables," such as wind and solar power.
The math, logic, and *science* on all these topics is unambiguous...for those who are truly interested in such things. Those more interested in perpetuating the quasi-religious, misanthropic Narrative that "Man Is the Source of All Evil" -- who see human activity as a cancer on the planet -- will find no support and comfort in Dr. Spencer's outstanding book. Rather, they'll find truly "inconvenient truths" from a veteran, Tier One climate scientist, one who has done what good scientists are supposed to do: follow the facts, rather than impose some ideological dogma upon the facts.
"An Inconvenient Deception" is a fast, enlightening, and ultimately reassuring read for anyone wanting to immunize himself from the self-serving scare tactics of media manipulators, scientific scammers, and political profiteers.
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