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Global Warming Skepticism for Busy People Kindle Edition

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This book draws on decades of climate research to explain why the threat of anthropogenic climate change has been grossly exaggerated. Global warming and associated climate change exists - but the role of humans in that change is entirely debatable. A little-known aspect of modern climate science is that the warming of the global atmosphere-ocean system over the last 100 years, even if entirely human-caused, has progressed at a rate that reduces the threat of future warming by 50% compared to the climate model projections. To the extent warming is partly natural (a possibility even the IPCC acknowledges), the future threat is reduced even further. This, by itself, should be part of the debate over energy policy – but it isn’t. Why? The news media, politicians, bureaucrats, rent-seekers, government funding agencies, and a “scientific-technological elite” (as President Eisenhower called it) have collaborated to spread what amounts to fake climate news. Exaggerated climate claims appear on a daily basis, sucking the air out of more reasoned discussions of the scientific evidence which are too boring for a populace increasingly addicted to climate change porn. Upon close examination it is found that the "97% of climate scientists agree" meme is inaccurate, misleading, and useless for decision-making; human causation of warming is simply assumed by the vast majority of climate researchers. In contrast to what many have been taught, there have been no obvious changes in severe weather, including hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts or floods. Despite an active 2018 wildfire season, there has actually been a long-term decrease in wildfire activity, although that will change if forest management practices are not implemented. Proxy evidence of past temperature and Arctic sea ice changes suggest warming and sea ice decline over the last 50 years or so is not out of the ordinary, and partly or even mostly natural. The Antarctic ice sheet isn't collapsing, but remains stable. The human component of sea level rise is shown to be, at most, only 1 inch per 30 years (25% of the observed rate of rise); and the latest evidence is that more CO2 dissolved in ocean water will be good for marine life, not harmful. Admittedly, continued emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel burning can be expected to cause (and probably has caused) some of our recent warming. But the Paris Agreement, even if extended through the end of the 21st Century, will have no measurable effect on global temperatures because the governments of the world realize humanity will depend upon fossil fuels for decades to come. Despite news reports and politicians' proclamations, international agreements to reduce CO2 emissions are all economic pain for no observable climate gain. What government-mandated reliance on expensive and impractical energy sources will do is increase energy poverty, and poverty kills. This downside to illusory efforts to “Save the Earth” is already being experienced in the UK and elsewhere. If people are genuinely concerned about humanity thriving, they must reject global warming alarmism. In terms of environmental regulation, the end result of the U.S. EPA's Endangerment Finding will be reduced prosperity for all, and climate gain for none. The good news is that there is no global warming crisis, and this book will inform citizens and help guide governments toward decisions which benefit the most people while doing the least harm.
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2018
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Customers find the book well-written and easy to understand. They say it does a fine job explaining the science of climate change without the alarmist. They also say it brings a more balanced picture of climate and refutes the media and government alarmists. Customers also say the book does s a good job of speaking out for skeptics and why their voices are not heard.

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Customers find the book does a fine job of explaining the science of climate change without the alarmist. They also appreciate the good charts, historical scientific facts, and excellent introduction to climate science. Readers also mention that the book is well written, simple to understand, and provides a measured and balanced refutation of that notion.

"This is one of the most enlightening books I have ever read...." Read more

"...He provides information for further reading for those who wish to dig further...." Read more

"...The book makes some telling points...." Read more

"This great book shows the lack of science behind the climate-change alarmists, the lack of consensus (1% vs. the claimed 97%), the claims without..." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and understand. They also say the author handles the subject very well, making it clear and concise. Readers also mention that the book is enjoyable and does a good job of speaking out for skeptics.

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"...For starters, a scientist who writes well, not that is a pleasant surprise! Roy Spencer also has a good sense of humor...." Read more

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Customers are mixed about the temperature change. Some mention that there is a clear increase in global temperature, at about 0.13 Celsius per decade. Others say that the theory of global warming is unreasonable and biased.

"...global warming for almost 40 years.. There is a clear increase in global temperature, at about 0.13 Celsius per decade...." Read more

"...Only topic I miss is the blatant and biased adjustment and manipulation of the temperature records." Read more

"Excellent over view of co2 warming — excellent graphics and first book I have seen toCover truth telling from both sides of the issue!’" Read more

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A concise, well-written overview of the state of climate science
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A concise, well-written overview of the state of climate science
I like the completeness of the issues dealt with, briefly and clearly explained. Dr. Roy Spencer is a good scientist. Good, explanatory graphs.
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Cristian I.
5.0 out of 5 stars String evidence based on science and supported by observations
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2023
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This book provides the mind-open reader with multiple arguments that the current climate change discussion and is based on biased interpretation of models results which lack substantial understanding of many global energy flows in atmosphere. The author does not deny the possible anthropogenic contribution of climate variability. Instead, he argues that that contribution is disproportionately smaller compared with natural causes which are real, but insufficiently understood. With scientific rigor and numerous statistics, the reader is guided into developing his own opinion. The book is easy to read and addressed to a general audience. It should be read by all those who ask themselves questions about what is true and what is interested propaganda in the current debate on climate change.

exaggerates conclusions based on
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kupaa
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most enlightening books I have ever read
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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This is one of the most enlightening books I have ever read. I am pursuing a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, but despite my background, I did not know much about climate science, until I found this book. I realized that I had been fed lots of misconceptions from other “scientists” in the media. Thank you for writing this
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Robert T Frankot
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent layman's explanation from one of the world's experts
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2019
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If you only have time to read one book skeptical of global warming, try this superb book by Dr. Roy Spencer. Whether you just wish to consider different points-of-view, or are firmly skeptical, or are greatly alarmed, this book is a good read. He explains in laymen’s terms the physics of the greenhouse effect, the unknowns in climate science, the emptiness of that “consensus” argument, how climate models continue to exaggerate warming, Al Gore’s deceptions, exaggeration of rising sea levels, the limitations of scientific peer-review, and other contemporary scientific debates regarding climate change. He provides information for further reading for those who wish to dig further.

Dr. Spencer is exceptionally well-qualified to write this book, with a distinguished research record in meteorology and climate science with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama Huntsville. He led science teams responsible for NASA satellites central to understanding climate. He received many awards, including (with colleague John Cristy) NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and the American Meteorological Society Special Award "for developing a global, precise record of earth's temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate."
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projectsjh
4.0 out of 5 stars Well written book with lots of information, but also some science (CO2) glitches. 4 and 1/2 stars!
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019
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Actually would like to give it 4 and 1/2 stars. For starters, a scientist who writes well, not that is a pleasant surprise! Roy Spencer also has a good sense of humor. (See his article "Do Aliens Cause Global Warming? The Data Say Yes", which you can find by entering the title into the box "search" at his website.)

The book makes some telling points. For instance, the chances of government or UN funding are “directly proportional to how seriously they portray the threat of global warming.” Serious funding is being talked about here. For the U.S. alone some estimates are as high as $100 billion over the past few decades.
Another telling point is a quotation from IPCC’s Third Assessment Report of 2001:

"The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future
climate states is not possible."

Nevertheless, the book does have some glitches. A major one is its treatment of CO2 and a minor one is a failure to distinguish between shelf ice and sheet or continental ice.

1) CO2 Treatment:

"Note I have also indicated in the above chart the amount of warming predicted from only a doubling of CO2
with no changes in the climate system other than temperature (about 1.2 deg. C, a widely-accepted
calculation from theory)."

This theory does not correspond to the thermal metrics of the AGs in general and CO2 in particular. Source?

" (Man’s CO2 emissions have) enhanced the Earth’s natural greenhouse by about 1 or 2 percent. The
calculation is a theoretical one; it cannot be verified experimentally (because the effect only exists over
substantial depths of the atmosphere, where the temperature decreases with height). It is the result of
measurements of how much CO2 absorbs radiation at different infrared wavelengths, data from which
refines the rather detailed and complex radiative absorption theory of gases."

Water vapor, by far the most important greenhouse factor, absorbs radiation at different infrared wavelengths, not just the trace gas CO2. The above also does not make the critical distinction between temperature and heat.

"Sometimes I am asked how something occupying such a small fraction of the atmosphere (0.04 %) can
have such a significant effect. It’s because each CO2 molecule undergoes billions of collisions with other
atmospheric molecules every second, which allows CO2 to warm (or cool) all of the other molecules. So, if a
CO2 molecule temporarily warms (or cools) from the gain (or loss) of infrared energy, it communicates this
change with the surrounding air molecules (mostly nitrogen and oxygen) that it collides with. This happens
very rapidly, with the collusions happening at least 10,000 times faster than the time it takes for a temporarily
“warmed” CO2 molecule to lose its extra energy by radiating it away.

Granted, CO2 molecules “vibrate” in ways that nitrogen and oxygen do not. However, the thermal metrics of CO2 are in the same ballpark as the other AGs. It does not have a convection or conduction metric (specific heat, joules, the R factor, VHC) that indicates it is a turbocharged thermal catalyst. The gas molecules collide with one another and Kinetic Molecular Theory does not have, to the best of my knowledge, any turbocharged collision metric for CO2.

2) Shelf ice versus sheet or continental ice: their difference is not mentioned in the section on the melting of Antarctic ice and Greenland. (The melting of shelf ice, e.g. that of the Western Antarctic and the Arctic, has zero impact on sea levels.)
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Scott Crosby (scrosby52@aol.com)
5.0 out of 5 stars Clears away the climate change fraud nonsense!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2018
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This great book shows the lack of science behind the climate-change alarmists, the lack of consensus (1% vs. the claimed 97%), the claims without evidence, where the evidence actually points, and, as important, _why_ climate change is being promulgated: political control by people who want to be able to dictate how you lead your lives, and the 80% of the countries in the UN who are "third-world", who would like to "redistrbute" teh wealth of the well-to-do countries to themselves; i.e., to the dictators who rule those third-world countries. And the UN and the IPCC are their tools to do it. Worried about "too much" CO2? The world's plants would love more! The current CO2 levels are not much more than starvation-level for plants. If we could double the amount of CO2 in the air, agriculture would see trillions of dollars worth of more plant life grown (and that increase in absolute terms is still very small - _not_ dangerous to us). There is lot more in this book - it is stuff you should know about. Being a Kindle book, the information provided is backed up with links to websites containing the research data, etc. - much better than a traditional bibliography. Don't delay: you owe it to yourself and your children to read this book!
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David Tavares
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
Reviewed in Brazil on September 14, 2022
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Um excelente livro que retrata o ceticismo climático de uma forma simples aos olhos leigos.
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Helmut Krebs
5.0 out of 5 stars Die beste Zusammenfassung des Sachstands
Reviewed in Germany on February 4, 2024
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Wer durch das Alarmtheater auf die Wissenschaft des Klimas blicken will, dem schiebt Dr. Roy Spencer all die vielen Ablenkungen vom Wesentlichen beiseite. Der Autor ist einer der kundigsten Fachexperten. Jahrzehntelang für die Wetterbeobachtung und -statistk der NASA zuständig und Lehrstuhlinhaber der Universität von Alabama für Klimawissenschaft zeigt er die zahlreichen ungelösten Fragen und fehlenden Beweise der CO2-Wasserdampf-Hypothese auf. Nichts ist klar, außer dass die Klimamodelle falsch sind. Die Wissenschaft ist noch lange nicht "settled". Ich liebe Spencers leicht verständliche Sprache. Sein Sinn für Humor und der respektvolle Umgang mit den rüpelhaften Verfechtern der Klimaapokalypse sind sympathisch.
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kingrf
5.0 out of 5 stars At last, some common sense!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2023
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An excellent treatment of a subject that will likely have a negative effect on just about every person on Earth. I personally feel it should be made required reading in all schools (the now largely discredited Hockey Stick was so why not this book ?). You don’t have to believe it, just read it and make up your own mind.
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Julián
5.0 out of 5 stars Datos reales sobre el clima
Reviewed in Spain on January 21, 2021
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Roy Spencer es todo un referente en la investigación sobre el clima. Leyendo sus trabajos te das cuenta que hay vida más allá del IPCC.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very credible review of what to be sceptical about and why scepticism is warranted
Reviewed in Canada on September 18, 2018
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Very good, comprehensive, research-based review of the things to be sceptical about in the case alarmists make for anthropogenic climate change (AGW).

The author doesn’t deny climate change; he’s just sceptical about the scale and scope of man-made (ie. CO2 from fossil fuels) vs. natural climate change and he shows the reader why he’s sceptical, issue by issue.

Will enable you to handle yourself in a discussion of AGW with anyone in any fora.

Also, a very fast read. 2-2 1/2 hours.

Very glad Dr. Spencer is “on the file.”
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