Climate confusion : how global warming hysteria leads to bad science, pandering politicians, and misguided policies that hurt the poor / by Roy W. Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Roy W.

Contributor:

Class of 1878 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global warming.

Physical Description:

ix, 191 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2008.

Summary:

If you listen to the media, you would think that man-made environmental catastrophe was about to engulf the world and imperil civilization. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to nightly jeremiads about CO2 emissions and carbon footprints, we are bombarded around the clock with alarmist reports that disasterous global warming is on the rise and that it's our fault. In Climate Confusion, noted climatologist Roy Spencer shows that fears about global warming are vastly exaggerated and are driven by politics, not truth. He shows that a global superstorm has already arrived--but it is a storm of hype and hysteria. Climate Confusion is a ground-breaking book that combines impeccable scientific authority with great wit and literary panache to expose the hysteria surrounding the myths of global warming and climate change. Spencer shows that the earth is far more resilient than exopessimists pretend and that increasing wealth and technology ingenuity, far from being the enemies of the environment, are the only means we possess to solve environmental problems as they arise.--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Global warming hysteria

Science isn't truth

How weather works

How global warming (allegedly) works

The scientists' faith, the environmentalists' religion

It's economics, stupid

The politics of climate change

Dumb global warming solutions

Less dumb global warming solutions

Summary.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1878 Fund.

ISBN:

9781594032103

1594032106

OCLC:

191024051