Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor | 
| Author: Roy Spencer
Publisher: Encounter Books
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Pages: 184
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ISBN: 1594032106
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Publication Date: March 27, 2008
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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.
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 A Climatologist's View on Global Warming Hysteria July 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Endorsed by both MIT Climate Scientist Richard Lindzen and laissez-faire economist Walter E. Williams, this book is another great addition to the growing number of books that debunking the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming hysteria. This book is *not* written by a conservative who denies the existence of global warming for political convenience.
I think the main attributes of this book that make it worth reading in addition to other leading books on this topic (e.g., Bjorn Lomborg's books and the Singer-Avery book) are as follows:
* The author is a climatologist who has included two, clearly written, chapters on how the weather works.
* The author values laissez-faire economics. Specifically, he cites his appreciation for the ideas of Fredrich Hayek and Julian Simon on numerous occasions.
* This is one of the most recent books. This is especially important, since the view that solar activity is largely the driving force behind climate change is relatively new, and is not discussed in several relatively recent books such as Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist.
I highly recommend this book to those who value laissez-faire economics and want a relatively quick, but informative read to separate the facts from fiction in the ongoing global warming debate. Be warned that the author has spliced jokes throughout this book. Although some might find this sophomoric, I perceived that this was not too overdone.
Hoping more would read... July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It troubles me that fellow educators will only smile condescendingly at your invitation to have them watch a video, show them what you're reading. Especially say science teachers. In my own field, if someone handed me a book that might challenge some grand notion, or present some new idea ...I would feel some obligation (if I haven't read much from that position already) to become acquainted with what the other views or new idea is saying. What has become of education that no longer obligates itself so? How can we be so disinterested in our own areas of study? The free exchange of ideas stops with prejudice and ego, and so does arriving at a balance of knowing truth.
This is an excellent book that should get into as many hands as possible. I've seen the video, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and Spencer's book brings a balance to what scientists are saying in that video as well. Intriguing to say the least to come to a better layman's understanding of the complex intricacies of what makes weather, how the earth like a living system compensates. The statistic alone of man adding one molecule of CO2 to every 100,000 molecules of air every five years...plus the complexities of a full understanding of climatology sure puts it clear to see how this has become a faith issue, with a religious fervor...that is very agenda driven, and for something other than truth! Considering politicians are deciding where YOUR tax dollars and future is heading under the guise of the Global Warming mantra, I highly recommend this book!!!
Funny and easy-to-understand truth about climate and economics July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Easy to read and understand terms about climatology and economics (with a twist of humor.) I learned more about these subjects in this short book than I did in college. I would recommend this book to anyone who desires to know how the climate really works and how global warming hysteria policies are causing more damage to humanity than so-called global warming is.
Cutting through the hype of global warming hysteria July 13, 2008
I cannot recommend this book more highly. It is well written, as entertaining as may be considering it is a serious work, highly informative, and finally, quite persuasive. The objects of that persuasion are primarily twofold.
First, Spencer does not argue that anthropogenic global warming is not currently occurring, but rather that climatologic science can not at its current stage of development support any of the global warming alarmists' projections. The analysis here is quite clear and readily accessible to the non scientist. This scientific uncertainty being the case, the current alarmism and policy prescriptions represent a misallocation of creative and fiscal resources to pseudo problems while real problems go unaddressed or even undetected.
Second, the author argues that even if the problem of anthropogenic global warming is real, currently proposed solutions (like Kyoto) either do nothing, or by fettering the potential of the free market and its attendant creativity make matters worse. Put another way, since it is likely that the advanced industrial nations which currently pour billions of public and private money into alternative energy research are going to be the ones to find and perfect alternatives, policies which slow those economies will extend the time it takes to fully develop non-carbon based energy options.
Finally, I would point out that I usually read the negative reviews of books in order to possibly glean points of view that merit consideration. It is not appropriate in a review to refute other reviews, though with the negatives for this book it could easily be done on a point by point basis. Let me simply say that the negative reviews should dissuade one neither from reading the book, nor giving serious weight to it's content.
Brilliant! July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Roy Spencer clearly explains science, its scientific methodology, and its limitations. He also clearly explains "the science" vis-a-vis "global warming" and "climate change". Then, he clearly explains the economics, the politics, the biases, and the religion. Finally, he proposes a prescription.
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