The Lomborg Deception
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Author |
: Howard Friel |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2010-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300161342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300161344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lomborg Deception by : Howard Friel
In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global warming is “no catastrophe” by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas—from Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic ice sheet—The Lomborg Deception also offers readers an enlightening review of some of today’s most urgent climate concerns. Friel’s book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg’s controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg’s textual claims and supporting footnotes reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right—even if somewhat conservatively right—all along. Friel’s able defense of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg’s repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading.
Author |
: Howard Friel |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300161038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300161034 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lomborg Deception by : Howard Friel
Questions the research, assumptions, and intention behind Danish statistician Bj²rn Lomborg's attacks on peer-reviewed scientific theories of global warming.
Author |
: Bjørn Lomborg |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 546 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521010683 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521010689 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Skeptical Environmentalist by : Bjørn Lomborg
A controversial, wide ranging and clearly documented survey of the state of the global environment.
Author |
: Bjorn Lomborg |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2007-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307267795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307267792 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cool It by : Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.
Author |
: James Lawrence Powell |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2011-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231527842 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231527845 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Inquisition of Climate Science by : James Lawrence Powell
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 more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science—an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human-caused, carbon-based emissions are linked to warming the Earth. The industry of climate science denial is succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific evidence for global warming has increased. It is vital that the public understand how anti-science ideologues, pseudo-scientists, and non-scientists have bamboozled them. We cannot afford to get global warming wrong—yet we are, thanks to deniers and their methods. 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.
Author |
: Bjorn Lomborg |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2020-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541647480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541647483 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis False Alarm by : Bjorn Lomborg
An “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world. Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education. False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong -- and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
Author |
: Howard Friel |
Publisher |
: Interlink Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2013-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781623710354 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1623710359 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chomsky and Dershowitz by : Howard Friel
Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MIT’s Noam Chomsky and Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz—the two protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty years—author Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1960s to the contemporary debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major findings reveal the consistency of Chomsky’s principled support of international law, human rights, and civil liberties, and a reversal by Dershowitz from support in the 1960s to opposition of those legal standards today. Friel’s volume argues that a Chomskyan adherence by the United States to international law and human rights would reduce the threat of terrorism and preserve civil liberties, that the Dershowitz-backed war on terrorism increases the threat of terrorism and undermines civil liberties, and that the incremental but steady transition toward a preventive state threatens the permanent suspension of civil liberties in the United States.
Author |
: Larry Bell |
Publisher |
: Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608320837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608320839 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate of Corruption by : Larry Bell
A startling and authoritative look at the special-interest groups that have corrupted the climate change debate.
Author |
: Howard Friel |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844670198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844670192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Record of the Paper by : Howard Friel
A scathing and thoroughly researched examination of the editorial practices of the worldâe(tm)s most consulted newspaper.
Author |
: Christopher C. Horner |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2008-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781596980747 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1596980745 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Red Hot Lies by : Christopher C. Horner
Liars--Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits--as well as your tax dollars and your liberties--with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda, the global warming alarmists--and unscrupulous scientists who see this scare as their gravy train to federal grants and foundation money--resort to dirty tricks, smear campaigns, and outright lies, abandoning scientific standards, journalistic integrity, and the old-fashioned notions of free speech and open debate. In Red Hot Lies, bestselling author Christopher Horner--himself the target of Greenpeace dirty tricks and alarmist smears--exposes the dark underbelly of the environmental movement. Power-hungry politicians blacklist scientists who reject global warming alarmism. U.S. senators threaten companies that fund climate change dissenters. Mainstream media outlets openly reject the notion of "balance." The occasional unguarded scientist candidly admits the need to twist the facts to paint an uglier picture in order to keep the faucet of government money flowing. In the name of "saving the planet," anything goes. But why the nasty tactics? Why the cover ups, lies, and intimidation? Because Al Gore and his ilk want to use big government at the local, state, federal, and global level to run your life, and they can brook no opposition. But the actual facts, as Red Hot Lies makes clear, aren't nearly as scary as their fiction.