Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1
Foreword to First and Second Editions Frederick Seitz 3
Foreword to Third Edition William Happer 5
Preface 7
List of Figures and Boxes 9
Part I Hot Talk 13
1 A Century of Climate Concerns 15
Little Support for the Greenhouse Theory
Warming or Cooling?
Fear of Global Warming
2 FCCC and the Kyoto Protocol 41
The Earth Summit Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)
The Kyoto Protocol
3 The Paris Agreement 49
Failure in Copenhagen
The Paris Agreement
A Big "Nothing Burger"
Leaving the FCCC
4 Misled by the IPCC 55
A Fake Consensus of Scientists
Corruption of the Peer-Review Process
The Missing Hotspot
Walking
Back Key Alarmist Claims
A Huge Public Deception
5 The Hockey Stick Deception 71
The Hockey Stick Illusion
The Illusion Exposed
6 The Climategate Scandal 77
"An Organized Conspiracy"
The Scientific Background
International Journal of Climatology
In the Courtroom
Part II Cold Science 85
7 What Science Really Says 87
The Temperature Record
What We Think We Know
What We Know We Don't Know
Severe Storms Are Not Increasing
Heat Waves Are Not Becoming More Common
Droughts Are Not Becoming More Common
Global Warming is Not Harming Coral Reefs
8 The Unreliable Surface Temperature Record 107
Two Warming Periods or One?
Corrupt Data and Changes in Instrumentation
9 The Gap Between Observed Temperatures and Climate Models 117
No Warming Trend
The Gap Between Observations and Models
Internal Causes
External Causes
Jet Contrails
Solar Influences
Other Possible Causes
10 Does CO2 Lead to Cooling? 129
The Theory
Assumptions
A Typical Reaction
11 Sea Level Rise 135
Sea Level Rise Is Not Accelerating
A Test of the Global Warming Theory
The Missing Water Is Turning into Ice
12 Malthusians versus Cornucopians 143
Rise of the Environmental Movement
"Sustainable Development"
Resource Depletion
Environmental
Protection
Implications for Climate Change
13 Benefits of Modest Warming 153
How Much Warming Can We Expect?
Lessons from History
A Boon for Agriculture
"Greening of the Earth"
Positive Effects on Human Health
14 Mitigation, Sequestration, or Adaptation 161
Mitigation: Reducing Emissions
Sequestration: Storing CO2
Adaptation: Turning Tragedy into Opportunity
15 Unfinished Business 171
Unsettled Scientific Issues
The Truth Needs to be Told
Preparing for Global Cooling
Major Glaciations
Little Ice Ages
How to Overcome a Little Ice Age
16 Conclusion 181
Afterword David R. Legates Anthony R. Lupo 185
References 195
Acronyms 215
Index 221
About the Authors 231