James Powell

The Inquisition of Climate Science

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Produktbeschreibung

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, has duped the American public into rejecting an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human-caused, carbon-based emissions are linked to warming the Earth. 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 exhibits deniers' wide variety of deceptive rhetorical techniques, many stretching back to ancient Greece. Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly proves the evidence of global warming is real.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780231157186
• ISBN-10: 0231157185
• Artikelnr.: 32864332

Autorenporträt

James Lawrence Powell

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Not Skeptics, by Deniers
1. Science and Potemkin Science
Never a Crisis
A Political Movement
A Cheap Tuxedo
Better Than Scientists
2. Adventures in Denierland
Urban Myth?
Cave Junction
3. The Evidence for Consensus
Spam Filter
Newton's Second Law
Polling Scientists
An Extremely Pernicious Development
4. Discovery of Global Warming
One of the Oldest Theories
A Large-Scale Geophysical Experiment
5. The Greenhouse Effect: From Curiosity to Threat
Models Predict Warming
Globetrotters
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
6. Global Warming: All You Really Need to Know in One Chart
7. Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers
All of Those People Are Wrong
With All Due Respect, by Dr. Michaels
The $45 Million Man
If Science Doesn't Have Integrity
Blue Marble
Nuke Vietnam?
Foot Soldier
8. Fear of State: The Nonscientists
Aren't You Embarrassed, by Mr. Will?
Once Again
The Lomborg Deception
Bed-Wetting, by Messianic
9. Toxic Tanks
Harry and Louise
Tale from the Crypt
Please Don't Poop in My Salad
Embarrassing General Marshall
Push Down on the Accelerator
10. An Industry to Trust
Most Profitable Company in History
An Industry That Cannot Afford Denial
11. Balance as Bias: How the Media Missed "The Story of the Century"
The Prestige Press
Plumes of Smoke from China
Carbongate
End of Objectivity?
Systemic Failure
12. Science Under Attack
It's the Sun, by Ozone
Testosterone
Watts Up with That?
Slap Shot
The Medieval Warm Period
Do Climate Models Work?
Did Global Warming End in 1998?
Chicken or Egg?
GRACE
Tropospheric Cooling?
13. Greatest Hoax in History?
Who's to Blame? Liberals, by of Course
To Command Spring
Funding Research
Traitors
14. Climategate: Much Ado About Nothing
One Million Words
Innocent of All Charges
Gates and More Gates
15. Anatomy of Denial
To Roll Back Industrial Society
16. Escalating Tactics
Monkey Trials
Old Virginia Home
17. Earning Trust
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index