Climate Change: The Facts 2017

by Jennifer Marohasy

Overview

There are certain things best not discussed with neighbours over the fence, at barbeques and at gatherings of the extended family; these topics used to include sex and politics, but more recently climate change has become a sensitive issue and has, consequently, crept onto the best-to-avoid list. At the same time as climate change has assumed this status, it has become a topic more likely to be included in a church sermon. Indeed, while once considered the concern of scientific institutions, climate change is now increasingly incorporated into faith-based initiatives with even Pope Francis weighing in, issuing an encyclical on the subject as explained in chapter 16 by Paul Driessen.

There are those who believe Pope Francis, and admire another climate change exponent, Al Gore – who marketed An Inconvenient Truth with comment, ‘the fact of global warming is not in question’ and that ‘its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked’. And then there are the die-hard sceptics who dare to doubt. Many claim that these climate sceptics and their support base have an undue political influence, successfully thwarting attempts to implement necessary public policy change.

This book is a collection of chapters by so-called climate sceptics. Each writer was asked to write on an aspect of the topic in which they are considered to have some expertise. None of them deny that climate change is real, but instead, they point out how extremely complex the topic of Earth’s climate is, with some of the contributors also querying the, often generally accepted, solutions.

As you will see, this is not a book with just one message, except perhaps that there is a need for more scrutiny of the data, and of our own prejudices. This book’s reason for being is to give pause for thought, and to throw some alternative ideas and considerations into the mix.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154509593
Publisher:	Institute of Public Affairs
Publication date:	08/14/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword

Contributors

Introduction

1 The Extraordinary Resilience of Great Barrier Reef Corals, and Problems with Policy Science

Professor Peter Ridd

2 Ocean Acidification: Not Yet a Catastrophe for the Great Barrier Reef

Dr John Abbot & Dr Jennifer Marohasy

3 Understanding Climate Change in Terms of Natural Variability

Dr Nicola Scafetta

4 The Role of the Moon in Weather Forecasting

Ken Ring

5 Creating a False Warming Signal in the US Temperature Record

Anthony Watts

6 It was Hot in the USA – in the 1930s

Tony Heller & Dr Jennifer Marohasy

7 Taking Melbourne’s Temperature

Dr Tom Quirk

8 Mysterious Revisions to Australia’s Long Hot History

Joanne Nova

9 The Homogenisation of Rutherglen

Dr Jennifer Marohasy

10 Moving in Unison: Maximum Temperatures from Victoria, Australia

Dr Jennifer Marohasy & Dr Jaco Vlok

11 A Brief Review of the Sun–Climate Connection, with a New Insight

Concerning Water Vapour - Dr Willie Soon & Dr Sallie Baliunas

12 The Advantages of Satellite-Based Regional and Global Temperature

Monitoring

Dr Roy W Spencer

13 Carbon Dioxide and Plant Growth

Dr Craig D Idso

14 The Poor Are Carrying the Cost of Today’s Climate Policy

Dr Matt Ridley

15 The Impact and Cost of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit, with a Focus

on US Policies

Dr Bjørn Lomborg

16 Re-examining Papal Energy and Climate Ethics

Paul Driessen

17 Free Speech and Climate Change

Simon Breheny

18 The Lukewarm Paradigm and Funding of Science

Dr Patrick J Michaels

19 The Contribution of Carbon Dioxide to Global Warming

Dr John Abbot & Dr John Nicol

20 Carbon Dioxide and the Evolution of the Earth’s Atmosphere

Dr Ian Plimer

21 The Geological Context of Natural Climate Change

Dr Bob Carter

22 Mass Death Dies Hard

Clive James

References