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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 shows that the deniers use a wide variety of deceptive rhetorical techniques, many stretching back to ancient Greece. Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231157186 |
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| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Publication date: | 08/30/2011 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Not Skeptics, Deniers 4
1 Science and Potemkin Science 7
Never a Crisis 9
A Political Movement 10
A Cheap Tuxedo 11
Better Than Scientists 14
2 Adventures in Denierland 15
Urban Myth? 17
Cave Junction 20
3 The Evidence for Consensus 24
Spam Filter 24
Newton's Second Law 28
Polling Scientists 31
An Extremely Pernicious Development 33
4 Discovery of Global Warming 36
One of the Oldest Theories 36
A Large-Scale Geophysical Experiment 40
5 The Greenhouse Effect: From Curiosity to Threat 43
Models Predict Warming 44
Globetrotters 45
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 47
6 Global Warming: All You Really Need to Know in One Chart 51
7 Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers 54
All of Those People Are Wrong 54
With All Due Respect, Dr. Michaels 58
The $45 Million Man 60
If Science Doesn't Have Integrity 63
Blue Marble 65
Nuke Vietnam? 67
Foot Soldier 71
8 Fear of State: The Nonscientists 73
Aren't You Embarrassed, Mr. Will? 73
Once Again 78
The Lomborg Deception 83
Bed-Wetting, Messianic, Moaning-Minnies 88
9 Toxic Tanks 93
Harry and Louise 94
Tale from the Crypt 96
Please Don't Poop in My Salad 97
Embarrassing General Marshall 101
Push Down on the Accelerator 103
10 An Industry to Trust 110
Most Profitable Company in History 110
An Industry That Cannot Afford Denial 116
11 Balance as Bias: How the Media Missed 121
"The Story of the Century" 121
The Prestige Press 122
Plumes of Smoke from China 124
Carbongate 126
End of Objectivity ? 128
Systemic Failure 130
12 Science Under Attack 133
It's the Sun, Ozone, Volcanoes, Sulfates 133
Testosterone 135
Watts Up with That? 136
Slap Shot 137
The Medieval Warm Period 140
Do Climate Models Work? 141
Did Global Warming End in 1998? 142
Chicken or Egg? 143
GRACE 145
Tropospheric Cooling? 146
13 Greatest Hoax in History? 148
Who's to Blame? Liberals, of Course 149
To Command Spring 150
Funding Research 152
Traitors 155
14 Climategate: Much Ado About Nothing 159
One Million Words 162
Innocent of All Charges 163
Gates and More Gates 167
15 Anatomy of Denial 170
To Roll Back Industrial Society 177
16 Escalating Tactics 180
Monkey Trials 182
Old Virginia Home 183
17 Earning Trust 188
Appendix 191
Notes 193
Bibliography 213
Acknowledgments 221
Index 223