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Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed Hardcover – Bargain Price, November 11, 2008

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that support them. Did you know that most scientists are global warming skeptics? Or that environmental alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated data on global warming? Or that in the Left's efforts to suppress free speech (and scientific research), they have compared global warming dissent with "treason"?

Shocking, frank, and illuminating, Chris Horner's Red Hot Lies explodes as many myths as Al Gore promotes.

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Liars--Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits--as well as your tax dollars and your liberties--with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda, the global warming alarmists--and unscrupulous scientists who see this scare as their gravy train to federal grants and foundation money--resort to dirty tricks, smear campaigns, and outright lies, abandoning scientific standards, journalistic integrity, and the old-fashioned notions of free speech and open debate. In Red Hot Lies, bestselling author Christopher Horner--himself the target of Greenpeace dirty tricks and alarmist smears--exposes the dark underbelly of the environmental movement. Power-hungry politicians blacklist scientists who reject global warming alarmism. U.S. senators threaten companies that fund climate change dissenters. Mainstream media outlets openly reject the notion of "balance." The occasional unguarded scientist candidly admits the need to twist the facts to paint an uglier picture in order to keep the faucet of government money flowing. In the name of "saving the planet," anything goes. But why the nasty tactics? Why the cover ups, lies, and intimidation? Because Al Gore and his ilk want to use big government at the local, state, federal, and global level to run your life, and they can brook no opposition. But the actual facts, as Red Hot Lies makes clear, aren't nearly as scary as their fiction.

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Praise for Red Hot Lies

"If I had to choose one global warming skeptic to go mano-a-mano against the best of the alarmists in a winner-take-all, rumble-in-the-jungle debate to the death to settle the climate controversy once and for all, my pick would be Chris Horner. Red Hot Lies shows why. Horner's astonishing depth and breadth of knowledge is crisply and cleverly articulated and packs amazing punch. It's no wonder the alarmists fear him."
--
Steven Milloy, publisher, JunkScience.com

Praise for Christopher C. Horner and his New York Times bestseller, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism

"Finally, someone has written a definitive resource to debunk global warming alarmism."
--
Senator James Inhofe (R.-Okla.), former chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee

"Chris Horner has been a staunch champion for common sense in the face of mounting media hysteria about the climate."
--
Roger Helmer, member of European Parliament

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005EP2A18
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Publishing (November 11, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 407 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.18 x 6.3 x 1.42 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2009
I totally agree with Professor Michael's review above of Red Hot Lies. Chris Horner has done a great job of bringing the whole package of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) mendacity together in one place.

Teachers who have helped indoctrinate our children with Gore's film, should read this book and then do a mea culpa to their charges and their parents and set the record straight.

Politicians who are now voting on climate bills or assenting to the EPA's plan to regulate CO2 should read Horner's book to understand the broad assault on truth that is being deployed by shysters of all stripes and climate laboratories looking for grants; if they still support the man-made global warming lie, one has to assume they are themselves feeding at the taxpayer-financed AGW trough and are personally in on this giant fleecing of America. No honest politician who has read this book could possibly vote for the AGW lie.

Horner has done a great job showing the inter-relationships between all the fleecers. An interesting follow on would be development of an in-depth multi-layered database showing the monetary flows between the taxpayers, the big institutions, the many government agencies, the UN, the climate laboratories (US and foreign) and corporations such as Walmart, British Petroleum, Duke Power, General Electric, and a host of "green" (green as in your money) power companies that are out for the buck.

The American economy and culture will be set back to the days of the cotton gin, according to Steven Hayward if the 80 by 50 plan for CO2 reduction becomes law - see "The Real Cost of Tackling Climate Change" - Wall Street Journal, 4.28.08:
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Many politicians, and in my judgment including this president and his staff and cabinet, care nothing about the truth of AGW but rather the avenue it provides to force state socialism on the American people, tear down the basis of the American economy, and help solidify a program of class warfare, silencing or liquidating the opposition and ending eventually in a socialist utopia. It has already been used as an excuse to nearly demolish the American auto industry, and the president has promised in his campaign that it will be used to wipe out the electric power industry's 100-year tradition of inexpensive reliable electric power, which has been the nation's economic engine since the day of Thomas Edison. If you have ever spent time in third world countries with limited electric power you might understand why their main product is poverty for their people, and that is the result that the socialist politicians seek for America - break a few eggs as they put it, to reach the socialist nirvana.

What is at stake here is the future of America. Every American needs to read and understand Red Hot Lies and act on it by flooding the politicians with letters and phone calls to stop supporting the AGW mendacity.

Who should read this book, cover to cover:

1. The President of Walmart, who distributed thousands of free copies of the Gore propaganda video to the nation's K12 schools. He should counter this propaganda with distributing this book to all schools that got the free Gore mendacity.
2. Every K12 teacher that spread the Gore propaganda to her/his students.
3. Every U.S Senator, especially those who have bought the Gore lie.
4. Every U.S. Congressional Representative.
5. Every new candidate for election in 2010, especially if the incumbent is wed to the man-made CO2 hoax.
6. Every State Governor
7. Every Member of a State Legislature
8. Every Federal and State Agency director that has scarce bucks budgeted for greenhouse gas emission control.
9. Every county tax collector who cannot conceive of the taxpayer goose having no more golden eggs to lay after their jobs have been sacrificed to the carbon gods.
10. Every student bent on a science career, be aware that a career in climate this or that may look monetarily attractive today, but it is doomed to go the way of the gas lamp when the thin-air foundation of the AGW lies becomes common knowledge.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2009
When I graduated from Engineering School in 1973, the big headlines at that time were "New Ice Age Coming" (my paraphrasing) with the cold summers we had at the time. And 36 years later, the big headlines have turned to "Global Warming" with predictions of Polar Bear extinction and coastline flooding. Didn't believe the first; having trouble believing the second.

I have heard the Meteorologists on The Weather Channel argue for Global Warming as if it is a confirmed fact. And I have heard a local university Climatologist state that the problem with Global Warming models, when applied to known historical patterns, is that they do not properly predict the weather patterns that happened in those past years.

Mr Gore, when challenged with this dilemma, refuses to address the issue and states the debate is over and everyone is in agreement with his Global Warming conclusions. Okay, when did the real debate happen and who agreed? (Interesting to note that Mr Gore's latest visit to Congress, Spring 2009, was arranged with pre-conditions that not one question could be asked about his positions.)

As an engineer, I have been trained to ask pointed questions and seek logical conclusions. There are too many holes in the Global Warming theory that cannot be (and have not been) explained. RED HOT LIES does an excellent job reviewing some of these holes, explaining the pressure placed on scientists to conform to the Global Warming position, and reveals untruths in Mr Gore's movie.

If you think the government is polarized with red and blue politics, then read the book to see the polarization happening with the scientists studying the Global Warming theory. If the last couple of cold winters has you wondering about Global Warming, then read the book about temperature recording errors. If the Al Gore movie (becoming a school viewing requirement) has your kids intimidated with the predicted results, read the book to help your kids digest the info. Even if you agree with the Global Warming theory, READ THE BOOK (i.e., At least be open to hear both sides of the argument).... JAS
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Dr. B
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. Puts aside political correctness tells it like it ...
Reviewed in Canada on April 7, 2016
Excellent. Puts aside political correctness tells it like it is.
Francisca
3.0 out of 5 stars A bit disappointed
Reviewed in France on July 29, 2010
I bought this book not because I needed to make up my mind about whether global warming is man made or not but in order to know the scams they are up to! I am not a scientist at all but looking at this money making machine there was never a chance I would have believed in it. The title of this book convinced me to buy it and... to be honest... despite the all the information contained in it I am disappointed. Why? For the simple reason that I don't believe that it is well written, at times it is even boring. The author seems to have put his thoughts down on paper and not have looked at the contents again. The only chapter I really enjoyed reading was the one about the indoctrination of children, funny enough that one is well written (in my humble opinion....) and scary!

I struggled to decide whether I would give this book 3 or 4 stars but in the end I decided that 3 starts were enough and I am going to look for other books on the subject. But again..... I learned a lot of facts I had no idea about although I always knew these people were up to no good. I just wish the author had had a ghost writer to help him put the house in order. If you are only after the facts then I would think that it is worth reading, if you want a book you also enjoy reading..... I don't think so!

One piece of advice I would like to leave here: why don't writers have a list at the end of the books where they write the abbreviations in full? There are so many and after a while when they mention one again if you are not familiar with them you tend not to remember what they are talking about.
Mr. K. Broster
5.0 out of 5 stars red hot lies
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2009
It is probable that I enjoyed this book so much because it served to confirm my own misgivings about much of what we are being told regarding the effect of man`s behaviour on the fluctuation in the earth`s temperature.

However, aside from that I found the book to be well writen and informative.
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Brian M.
4.0 out of 5 stars Very easy listening.
Reviewed in Canada on April 3, 2023
Very easy listening and clear messaging.
Duncan Mackenzie
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth your time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2016
It takes a while to get to detailed descriptions of propaganda techniques, and the author assumes that if you are reading it you must already be 'on-side'. However, once it hits its stride it becomes more convincing. It has, in places, that particular habit (I find it often in American political writing) of stating something but not backing it up with proof - which is irritating - but it is a good read, engaging (particularly if you are on a long train journey - and I was), and may leave me outraged towards the 'Global Warming Alarmists' - as they are called here. Certainly, you'll be more careful over what to believe in the press.