The inquisition of climate science / James Lawrence Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, James Lawrence, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global warming.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science-an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human-caused, carbon-based emissions are linked to warming the Earth. The industry of climate science denial is succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific evidence for global warming has increased. It is vital that the public understand how anti-science ideologues, pseudo-scientists, and non-scientists have bamboozled them. We cannot afford to get global warming wrong-yet we are, thanks to deniers and their methods.The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. In this book, readers meet the most prominent deniers while dissecting their credentials, arguments, and lack of objectivity. James Lawrence Powell shows that the deniers use a wide variety of deceptive rhetorical techniques, many stretching back to ancient Greece. Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Not Skeptics, Deniers

1. Science and Potemkin Science

2. Adventures in Denierland

3. The Evidence for Consensus

4. Discovery of Global Warming

5. The Greenhouse Effect: From Curiosity to Threat

6. Global Warming: All You Really Need to Know in One Chart

7. Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers

8. Fear of State: The Nonscientists

9. Toxic Tanks

10. An Industry to Trust

11. Balance as Bias: How the Media Missed "The Story of the Century"

12. Science Under Attack

13. Greatest Hoax in History?

14. Climategate: Much Ado About Nothing

15. Anatomy of Denial

16. Escalating Tactics

17. Earning Trust

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613261090

9781283261098

128326109X

9780231527842

0231527845

OCLC:

831121331