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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 363.73874 EAN: 9781594032103 ISBN: 1594032106 Label: Encounter Books Manufacturer: Encounter Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 184 Publication Date: March 27, 2008 Publisher: Encounter Books Studio: Encounter Books Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Clearing the AirJust finished "Climate Confusion". Kudos to Dr. Spencer! It was even better than I'd hoped, and heaven knows it is sorely needed now to even partially offset the tidal wave of contrary Global Warming Alarmist diatribe currently flooding the media. Hopefully it will be read by some on the other side of the controversy, or fence-straddlers, and just maybe some will more critically examine the nature of the activist onslaught. Although the subject is quite serious and so treated, the book was very ... Read More Rating:  - A Weather WarningProfessor Roy Spence's book "Climate Confusion" (2008 191-page hardback) is a compact study about how "man made global warming is based as much on faith as it is upon knowledge". His meteorologically founded discussion convinces that science has not, yet, settled the news media's climate change dilemma. With nine chapters Spence suggests how weather works, how the globe warms and cools, why scientists are often biased, how politics informs the global warming debate, some "dumb global ... Read More Rating: - Common sense on climate changeIt is a pleasure to read a book by a distinguished scientist who has the ability to see and put things in perspective. Dr. Spencer shows convincingly how recent global warming fits in the natural cycles of changing climate, and that human activity is not likely to add much to the natural warming. Most important, he shows that climate is enormously complicated and that we do not know nearly enough about it to make the dogmatic statements favored by politicians and environmentalists. In the foreseeable ... Read More Rating: - Great place to go to understand the climate debateThis book does an excellent job of covering the science behind the global warming scare. It also provides understanding of the human motives behind the issue such as the desire to "go along to get along" and the fear of losing funding or standing if you honestly go against the politically correct view of climate change. Rating: - The Coolest Critique I have read several books on this subject. This one is by far the best. It is clear, easy for the non-climatologist, well balanced and humorous. It is also brief. The chapters on weather and climate are lucidly presented although they might take reading twice over, since this book is not intended for scientists. The politics of climate research are well presented and important in understanding the bias in funding researchers in this field. I highly recommend this book and have already told many others ... Read More |
