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Have you ever wondered why so many people believe recent climate change is almost entirely the result of human activity, even when there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary? It’s because the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says so. This compact, readable book pulls apart the flawed science behind the IPCC’s assertion that man-made CO2 is causing global warming. Author Ralph Alexander exposes the IPCC’s deceptive manipulation of climate data, t… More >>
From start to finish i adored this book. It was satire at its best. It had everything from global conspiracy theories to an author that was obviously writing under the pseudonym of “dr.” Pure comic genius my friends. A must read for those of you who adore the comic acts of Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart.
Rating: 5 / 5
I read a lot, and I confess to have been among those who “bought in” to the celebrity alarmism of Al Gore, but I never displaced the totality of the threats to Earth for an obsessive focus on carbon emissions. Among the three books I have always recommended that are far more balanced than anything by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are:
High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
The Future of Life
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)
That having been said, I was generally supportive of the Kyoto Treaty and the concept of carbon reductions.
Then I read The Resilient Earth: Science, Global Warming and the Fate of Humanity and within weeks, read Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) and finally, just the past week, noticed the Hacktivism that outed all of the fraud and deception in the Climate Research Unit central to the IPCC (Climate Change Fraud is now a global meme).
As Sir Richard Branson prepares to go to Copenhagen in December, I have to wonder if he might not be feeling a tad abused and in need of better intelligence (decision-support). He’s been had. The good news is that over 31,000 scientists have signed the Oregon Petition saying that more study is needed and he existing climate change assertions by the IPCC are NOT properly documented.
Following the Hactivist outing of climate change fraud (and coincidentally in the same week, German hackers provided Wikileaks with a file of all the 9-11 day text messages in NYC, they are culling and finding bomb reports–the days of “rule by secrecy” are OVER) I sought out a book and found this one.
It’s as perfect a read as one could ask, and just right for those preparing to go to Copenhagen somewhat shame-faced that they have been had. A solid 124 pages with 330 notes as well as a glossary and an index, I found this book fully satisfactory.
It fails the IPCC across the board, and lest I be considered anti-United Nations (UN), let me point out that the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change found environmental degradation to be the THIRD threat to humanity after poverty (which does enormous environmental damage, more than all corporations combined) and infectious disease. Read their report (also free online), A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility–Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.
Early quotes from this book that grabbed me:
Quoting Thomas Huxley: “Skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
Then…”if we continue to debase science as the IPCC and other political bodies do, our wonderful scientific heritage will be lost.”
I would say at this point that the only thing WORSE than IPCC fraud that I have seen documented is the Republican War on Science, see my reviews at Phi Beta Iota, Amazon does not allow more than ten links.
The author is well-grounded when he documents how ridiculous it is to blame all climate change detrimental to humanity on carbon emissions. See just two books that place the blame scarely on our own idiocy and lack of ethics (not on carbon emissions):
Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
The book is significantly enhanced, apart from its well-dcoumented text with roughly three solid notes per page, by nine full pages that first state assertions by the IPCC, and then present competing documented views.
From where I sit, IPCC should be shamed and spanked in Copenhagen, and illustrious donors and well-intentioned people should shun it and demand a complete make-over. Indeed, my own long-standing desire is to create a World Game with embedded EarthGame such as put conceptualized by the Earth Intelligence Network, and devoted to studying and eradicating all ten high-level threats to humanity through multinational information sharing and sense making that allows for the voluntary harmonization of all twelve core policies in favor of the eight demographic challengers (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and Wild Cards such as Malaysia and Turkey). From where I sit, both the UN and the US (and certainly the UK) are “stupid” and desperately in need of good Open Source Intelligence in the context of a strategic analytic model that enables global participatory budgeting.
This book is, in my humble opinion, a stake in the heart of the IPCC, and rightly so.
I believe in the truth at any cost for the simple reason that the truth lowers ALL costs. E Veritate Potens!
Two other books with bigger picture ideas:
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Rating: 5 / 5
This was the third book on the topic that I have read. ‘Blue Planet in Green Shackles’ and ‘heaven+earth, global warming: the missing science’ were the other two. R.Alexander has a balanced look at the evidence. The book is well structured. His arguments are excellent, supported by relevant evidence and are written for the non-technical person. He points out the mandate of the IPCC, its contribution to the politicisation of the issue, and the vilification of scientists and others with dissenting views. His summaries on the way through are very good as milestones in building the case.
Alexander puts the possible contribution of anthropogenic-CO2 to current global warming in perspective with other critical elements of the whole system, such as the sun, water vapour, major ocean currents and volcanoes. He also puts the current warming event in context with what has happened on earth through millennia.
This book is recommended reading for anyone interested in the issue.
Rating: 4 / 5
The information is presented in an unbiased manner. He demonstrates the fraud using their own words and data. For the first half of the book he makes no inferences and draws no conclusions, simply setting out the debate and showing their own internal contradictions. Recent events have shown that all of his conclusions are true. The UN is corrupt, and the scientific establishment will commit any perfidy, including the debasement of science, in their pursuit of the dollar, fame and power. Anyone remember HIV and a guy named Gallo?
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a good book for those who wish a quick understanding of what’s going on with all the shrill Global Warming claims (= Hysteria) and the bad science behind them. It’s a simple book, short, and easy to read.
One other book I’d recommend, even shorter, is the Aussie “A skeptics Guide to Global Warming,” by Joanne Nova. It’s available both as a pdf file and a paperback, and is only 16 pages. They use it to help train High School Science teachers, a better choice, I think, than America’s approach: showing Gore’s Apocalyptic Science Fiction movie to terrify and brainwash our school children. The vast sum of $79 Billion (That is not a typo. BILLION, with a “B”.) has gone for politicized science to support Gore’s propaganda. Your tax dollars at work!!! (Source: SPPI report “Climate Money.”)
For those who want more depth in the economics and politics of Global Warming, “Blue Planet in Green Schackles” is preferred. For how the science has been gamed, it’s “Climate of Extremes.” And for the basics of how climate — clouds — helps to moderate weather and keep the planet habitable, it is “Climate Confusion.”
But this is a good starter book. Above all, don’t believe the media. A LOT of money is going into Global Warming propoganda, and the media isn’t critical of this.
GOOD BOOK. AN EASY, QUICK READ.
Rating: 5 / 5