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The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so | 
 enlarge | Author: Lawrence Solomon
Publisher: Richard Vigilante Books
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 0980076315
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
EAN: 9780980076318
ASIN: 0980076315
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Book Description
Is The "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming a Myth? Yes, says internationally renowned environmentalist author Lawrence Solomon who highlights the brave scientists--all leaders in their fields-- who dispute the conventional wisdom of climate change alarmists (despite the threat to their careers) Al Gore and his media allies claim the only scientists who dispute the alarmist view on global warming are corrupt crackpots and "deniers", comparable to neo-Nazis who deny the Holocaust. Solomon calmly and methodically debunks Gore's outrageous charges, showing in on 'headline' case after another that the scientists who dispute Gore's doomsday scenarios have far more credibility than those who support Gore's theories. These men who expose Gore's claims as absurd hold top positions at the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world. Their work is cited and acclaimed throughout the scientific community. No wonder Gore and his allies want to pretend they don't exist. This is the one book that PROVES the science is NOT settled. The scientists profiled are too eminent and their research too devastating to allow simplistic views of global warming--like Al Gore's--to survive.
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 Compelling Rebuttal to Man-Made Global Warming August 29, 2008
The author has done a scholarly job of interviewing many highly qualified scientists who refute the claims of Al Gore and his disciples. He makes a distinction between normal global warming and man-made global warming. I highly recommend the book.
A part of the turning tide August 28, 2008
Self-promoters like Al Gore have used global warming hysteria to gain fame and fortune for themselves. Millions of people who have abandoned religion need something to believe in, so they become ardent "environmentalists". The scenario is a familiar one: those who gain by stirring up fear and hysteria become the leaders of the gullible masses. Those who stand in the way of the promoters are demonized. It was no different in Medieval Europe when the self-aggrandizers led literal witch hunts.
Today's witch hunts are promoted by Al Gore, the self-serving bureaucrats of the UN's IPPC, academics living off taxpayer government grants and the functionaries who award them, the entrepreneurs and charlarans peddling various conservation and energy schemes.
A lot of people have vested interests in promoting global warming alarmism.
Lawrence Solomon is also an environmentalist, but he has not succmubed to the imaginary "scientific consensus" on global warming pronounced by Al Gore.
Instead Solomon seeks the truth. He began a series of columns in Toronto's National Post featuring highly qualified and usually eminent scientists who disagreed with the "scientific consensus". These disturbers of the peace were villified for daring to question the accepted truths of the global warming alarmists - but they were not silenced.
Solomon went on to write more than 40 instsallments of his "The Deniers" column. A natural outgrowth was this meticulously researched book explaining the work and opinions of some truly qualified scientists who may not dispute global warming, but do reject the hysterical and unfounded claims that it is caused by industrial activity or that the result is catastrophe.
Solomon is a skilled writer. In describing the work of "The Deniers", he breaks down very complex and sophisticated areas of science into understandable lay terms. He provides an abbreviated CV of each of the scientists, making it clear that they are accomplished in their fields. Some of them, by the way, are well known to the public, such as Freeman Dyson.
But most are dedicated, responsible scientists who do not seek fame and glory: they seek scientific truth, something Al Gore and company are not interested in.
Solomon takes no position on any of the theories he writes about. Rather he is a chronicler. He opens the book with the well known "hockey stick" showing dramtic increases in global temperatures in just the past few decades. We are introduced to Dr. Edward J. Wegman who demolished the inexperienced, young Nichael Mann's "hockey stick". While Al Gore still touts Mann's nonsense, the UN's IPPC, without fanfare, stopped citing it.
Solomon's neutrality truly helps. The work of the dissenting scientists and their words make a compelling case without need for editorializing.
The alarmists, of course, have demonized Solomon as they have the scientists whose work he presents. Deniers cannot be tolerated in the world of alarmists who have declared "scientific consensus' and, thus, the impossibility of anyone, much less highly qualified and well respected, scientists dissenting.
It is unfortunate that the only people who read this book are those intelligent enough not to blindly follow the dictates of Al Gore, the Sierra Club and the millions of gullible people. For those who have the intelligence to understand that science is not proven by "consensus", Solomon provides much food for serious thought.
What is truly inspiring is that more and more of the "denying" scientists are being spoken of in the public sphere and their dissenting views are becoming known. While the truly committe global alarmists aren't open to actually assessing their views, many others are and that perhaps will lead to the triumph of reason.
Jerry
Global Warming Mafia at Work August 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley and have done some code modeling. The codes calculate some things well and other things (e.g. Temperature) not very well. I learned to be very suspicious of the results. I think the current Global Circulation Model code people have lost their objectivity and want to bend the hard data to fit their predictions. If their predictions are correct, why do they want to kill any research that might prove them wrong? What are they afraid of? Their attempts to punish any researcher who disagrees with them should have no place in science. This is probably the best book on the subject that I have read. In a recent development the American Physical Society's Forum on Physics and Society has opened a 'paper debate' for people to submit scientific articles on either side of the issue. I think that is a very healthy development. Polemics will not be published. Senator Barbara Boxer has made the idiotic statement that anyone who disagrees with the politically correct view is a 'flat-earth nut', but then she is famous for her arrogance.
A rational treatment of Global Warming hysteria August 24, 2008
Lawrence Solomon performs a calm, rational analysis of why we should avoid the "Chicken Little" warnings by Al Gore and the manmade global warming fanatics. His assertion is that we simply don't have enough solid data to charge down the path they have chosen to take.
Quoting prominent scientists in the global warming field who have changed their minds about the threat of MGW, he lends credibility to the concept that we need a lot more information before we jump off a hugely expensive cliff.
Far from being a wild eyed kneejerk conservative reactionary, Mr Solomon works for a Canadian environmental group called Energy Probe.
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Solomon demonstrates that in at least the cases he presents, Al Gore and the MGW crowd are playing fast and loose with global warming science in pursuit of their political goals.
In a manner more like a surgeon than an author, Mr Solomon removes one MGW supporting argument after another by discussing relevant areas with 28 highly qualified climate scientists from all parts of the world. Not only are these folks qualified, but many were responsible for groundbreaking research that contributed to the MGW argument in the first place, including Saint Al's original mentor, Dr. Richard Revelle. Many of these "Deniers" were highly placed IPCC participants and authors. In statements of true scientific consensus, each said that their work had either been misquoted, misused, over stated, or all three, by the MGW movement.
As a matter of interest, these scientists are careful to address only their concerns about how their work has been misrepresented, and remain within their defined areas of expertise. The fact that dozens of such arguments are made lends credibility to Solomon's call for caution in taking drastic action on MGW.
Solomon's inescapable conclusion is that in the areas where the original scientists have chosen to take leave of the MGW stampede, true scientific support is at best weak. Solomon also concludes that MGW has moved from the scientific world to the political one, so these "deniers'" voices are likely to be drowned out by the Gore-led stampede to "Save Humanity" from MGW.
Great balance from the other side of the story August 24, 2008
As a fellow scientist with extensive statistical training & experience in multi-variable analysis, I have always questioned the certainty that the UN, Gore & others have expressed on manmade climate change. This book provides a healthy counterbalance to Gore, the UN, etc.; one that I appreciate. Scientific doubt is equally important to scientific certainty when there is conflicting data that does not support a theory.
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