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The real global warming disaster : is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? / Christopher Booker.
Van Pelt Library QC981.8.G56 B66 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Booker, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global warming.
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
- Climatic changes.
- Environmental protection--Citizen participation.
- Environmental protection.
- Western countries--Environmental conditions.
- Western countries.
- Environmental conditions.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2009.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Forging the 'Consensus' 1972-1997
- Prologue 11
- Chapter 1 How it all Began
- Cooling and warming: 1972-1987 17
- Chapter 2 The Road to Rio
- Enter the IPCC and Dr Hansen: 1988-1992 38
- Chapter 3 The Road to Kyoto
- Enter Vice-President Gore and IPCC 2 56
- Part 2 The 'consensus' carries all before it: 1998-2007 77
- Chapter 4 The 'Hottest Year Ever'
- Enter the 'Hockey Stick' and IPCC 3: 1998-2003 79
- Chapter 5 The Political Temperature Rises
- 'A far greater threat than terrorism': 2004-2005 110
- Chapter 6 Hysteria Reaches its Height
- Gore and the EU unite to save the planet: 2006-2007 140
- Part 3 The 'consensus' begins to crumble: 2007-2009 171
- Chapter 7 The Temperature Drops
- IPCC 4, The modellers lose the plot: 2007 173
- Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Planets
- Fiction versus truth: 2008 215
- Chapter 9 Countdown to Copenhagen
- Colliding with reality: 2009 264.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441110527
- 1441110526
- OCLC:
- 464062575
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